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माँ-बाप के प्रति कर्तव्य पर आखिरी बात || आचार्य प्रशांत, वेदांत महोत्सव ऋषिकेश में (2021)
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Family Relationships
Duty
Consciousness
Love
Equality
Gratitude
Spiritual Growth
Wisdom
Description

Acharya Prashant responds to a question about being overly involved in family matters due to emotional blackmail and a sense of duty. The speaker uses an analogy of his relationship with his pet rabbits to explain how to navigate such situations. He details the extensive care he provides for his rabbits, including ensuring their safety, feeding them, and taking them for medical care. This care requires significant time, effort, and resources, even causing some members of his organization to miss the event to look after the animals. In return for this care, the rabbits, operating at their level of consciousness, can only offer simple gestures like licking his hand. The speaker emphasizes that he does not reciprocate by acting like a rabbit. Instead, he provides care based on his higher level of understanding and wisdom. He explains that true equality in a relationship is not about a tit-for-tat exchange of actions. The rabbit gives what it can from its level, and he gives what he can from his. He would not, for instance, eat the rabbit's grass just because the rabbit eats his grass. Applying this to family relationships, Acharya Prashant advises that one should acknowledge what their parents did for them based on their own understanding and consciousness. Now, it is the child's turn to reciprocate, not by mimicking their parents' actions, but by giving what is highest from their own evolved consciousness. If parents gave physical birth, the child's duty, out of love, is to give them a spiritual birth. This means sharing knowledge, wisdom, and consciousness with them. If one has come into contact with something superior, the highest expression of love is to offer that superior thing to their loved ones, using whatever means necessary to bring them to it.