Acharya Prashant addresses the common misconception regarding the loss of childhood, explaining that Kabir Saheb's observation about 'wasting childhood in play' is a correction of our accounting errors. We often claim a total age that includes years spent in ignorance or default states; if we were truly evolved, we would only count the years lived in awareness. He emphasizes that the ego perceives the soul as something 'other' or 'second' because of its own limited perspective. In reality, the soul is the only truth, and the ego must dissolve for this realization to occur. He clarifies that a spiritual person focuses on the source of actions within themselves rather than becoming a social activist who blames others for worldly problems like environmental destruction.
