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दुनिया की गंदगी से बचा लो इन बच्चों को || आचार्य प्रशांत, गीता दीपोत्सव (2024)
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Parenting
Childhood
Consciousness
Worldly Influence
Great Personalities
Knowledge
Education
Shiva Sutra
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In response to a question about instilling good values in young children, Acharya Prashant explains that to understand the state of a child's consciousness, one should ask them to list twenty people. If this list does not include the great personalities of history, the child is being ruined. He emphasizes that one must protect the child and keep them clean, as this world is a very filthy place. A child should be raised in such a way that not even a single drop of the world's influence falls on them. If one can raise even one such child, they will shine like the sun and enlighten many others. Acharya Prashant shares his personal experience, stating that for many years, he was protected from the pettiness of the world and was not exposed to it, which helped him immensely. He was given books and introduced to great, strong characters as heroes, with whom he spent his time. He considers himself fortunate to have been unaware of many worldly matters, and he still is. He explains that he was not exposed to many things and was not even told the price of his clothes or shoes, so the curiosity for such things was never awakened in him. He quotes the Shiva Sutra, "Jnanam bandhah," which means knowledge is bondage, clarifying that the wrong kind of knowledge becomes bondage. He explains that ignorance means false knowledge, and he was saved from this. He advises giving children exposure to the highest things, as the attraction of greatness is powerful. Once a child gets a taste of what is truly great, they will automatically reject trivialities. He says that if you talk about a train, he remembers the Kakori conspiracy; if you talk about a young woman, he remembers revolutionary women like Pritilata Waddedar and Kalpana Datta. Acharya Prashant criticizes parents who expose their children to the filth of the world, such as business cunningness or mindless entertainment, calling them foolish. He asserts that the most exploited species in the world is the child. People are eager to marry and have children without being worthy of it, and then they pass on their own diseases to their children. He states that raising a child is a tremendous project, equivalent to raising all of humanity. It must be done with utmost care, protecting the child from the disease that is the world, a disease that adults themselves are often fond of.