00:00Let's say my parents are superstitious.
00:01They say what you learned at school was wrong
00:03and you have to learn this superstitious time.
00:05My parents are more important to me.
00:07So how do you remove this factor of importance of people
00:09and just getting into the importance of idea?
00:11So when you say, I believe that what my parents say
00:14is more important than what my teachers say,
00:16that's not what you believe in.
00:18That's what you have been taught to believe in.
00:20So don't say, it is my belief
00:22that parents' word is more important.
00:24Even the belief that parents are sacrosanct
00:27is a belief given to you by parents.
00:30What else do you expect them to do?
00:32So be very careful what is really your own.
00:35That's not your own.
00:36That's a cultural belief.
00:38That's a familial thing.
00:39And those cultural beliefs vary from land to land
00:42and time to time, don't they?
00:43The kind of importance you give to parents in India
00:45is very different from what you give to them in the US,
00:48let's say.
00:48Then how can it be something internal to you?
00:50It's a function of time, culture, society, norms.
00:55It's not yours.
00:56And that's the freedom a young man should seek.
00:59To not to be a victim of cultural norms,
01:02of what goes around.
01:04Rid yourself of all other obligations and promises.
01:08No, you are not obliged.
01:09Your only responsibility,
01:11your only commitment is towards the truth.
01:13All else is dispensable.
01:17You are not.
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