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परिपक्वता है अनावश्यक से मुक्ति || आचार्य प्रशांत, युवाओं के संग (2015)
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Maturity
Childhood
Freedom
Conditioning
Responsibility
Innocence
Understanding
Seriousness
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Acharya Prashant explains that there can be two meanings of growing up. One meaning is that the dust that has accumulated on you from here and there is growing. The second meaning is that to grow up means to move forward, and in moving forward, you have cleaned that dust. Both things can happen. Until a certain age, you don't have a choice. You have to accept whatever comes from the outside because you don't know or understand, and you are dependent on others. So, whatever you get from the outside, you have to take it. After that, two paths open up. One is that what is coming from the outside continues to come, and the speed of its arrival also increases. Previously, society had small expectations of you, but after a certain age, the expectations become bigger and keep increasing. So, one meaning of growing up can be that the so-called responsibilities and the related tensions keep increasing. The second meaning of growing up is that, let alone adding new tensions, we have also cleaned the burden that was already on us. To grow up means to clean. It is up to you which definition of growing up you choose. One meaning can be that you had a 5 kg weight on your head, and you made it 50 kg, and now you are being crushed under that weight. Or, the second meaning of growing up can be that you removed the 5 kg weight that was on your head, and now you are completely free. Unfortunately, most of us choose the first definition of growing up. We think that growing up means taking on more burden on our shoulders. We have been taught this very thing. The world does this to us. As soon as one's age increases a little, it is said, 'What will you do by studying now? What will you do by playing now? Now you come and take some responsibility.' The speaker states that this is a false definition of growing up. The real meaning of growing up is to not take on new burdens and to remove the old ones. Previously, we were somewhat suppressed; we had some garbage on us. Now, we will clean that garbage completely. This is true maturity, this is adulthood. This is what is called growing up. He who is grown-up is not one whose shoulders are stooped, whose face is tense, whose laughter has been snatched away, who is needlessly serious. The grown-up one is the one who is light, who is flying, whose mind is clean. The speaker says that the real meaning of growing up is to regain your childhood. The one who is grown-up is the one who has regained their childhood. But the childhood of a child is snatched away by the time they become a teenager. When a grown-up becomes a child, they have not only simplicity but also understanding. So, when a grown-up becomes a child, they become like Buddha. And their childhood will never be snatched away because that childhood, while having simplicity, is also endowed with understanding. He advises to be fearlessly childlike. The one who is grown-up is the one who has regained their childhood. Don't let anyone take away your innocence, your spontaneity, your clean eyes. Don't give anyone the right to tell you that a grown-up is one who has become deceitful, who has learned all kinds of tricks. That is not being grown-up.