Your Family Size Is NOT Your Personal Matter. Sorry! || AP Neem Candies

Acharya Prashant

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Your Family Size Is NOT Your Personal Matter. Sorry! || AP Neem Candies

Acharya Prashant: A fellow reproducing blindly is a threat to the entire humanity. How is his family his personal matter? Tell me, please. Somebody sets a time bomb in his home, a huge time bomb that will bring down the entire community—will you say it’s his private matter because he is doing it within his home? Tell me, please. Somebody sets a bomb inside his home, and the bomb is powerful enough to bring down the entire building, not merely his apartment. Will you say, “It is his private matter; how can I interfere? These are personal choices. We have to respect personal choices”? These are not personal choices anymore. If you are reproducing, you are bringing down entire humanity.

So, you have to be more than gentle now. And that does not mean cruelty; that means more compassion, more energetic action coming from deeper compassion and deeper sense of responsibility. You will have to give up the notion that these are, first of all, personal choices. No, they are not personal choices. What you are doing has an effect on me. How is it your personal matter?

Questioner: When I see people begging on the streets with their children, I feel very strongly about it. Even though I understand that we are born into different situations with different kinds of resources, it still angers me when I see that very poor people who are not even able to fend for themselves are having kids and using them as tools to beg even further. So, how to approach such things?

Acharya Prashant: No, you are not looking in exactly the right direction. That kid that you see begging on the street will have a far smaller carbon footprint throughout his life, even if there are five such kids in that beggar family. Obviously, that beggar family must not have five such kids, but the reasons for not having kids must be social and economic. By having five kids, the beggar family is not really causing much harm to the climate because their consumption levels are extremely low; their numbers do not matter.

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