On the global crisis of population, consumption and climate || Acharya Prashant (2019)

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On the global crisis of population, consumption and climate || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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On the global crisis of population, consumption and climate || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Question: Acharya Ji, what will happen to us in old age? Will we be able to manage ourselves then? My mother fell sick a few days back. Had we not been with her, she wouldn’t have been able to manage herself. Will the same happen to us in old age?

Acharya Prashant Ji: Are you like your mother?

Questioner 1: No.

Acharya Prashant Ji: Then why are you comparing? Your mother paid for a dependent life. Do you, first of all, want to be dependent?

Questioner 1: No.

Acharya Prashant Ji: Then why are you weaving stories?

Questioner 1: But my father too faced the same problems.

Acharya Prashant Ji: He too would have been dependent. Why do you want to be dependent in the first place?

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