Acharya Prashant addresses the trend of making young children, some as young as four, into gurus and storytellers. He states that this phenomenon is a reason why India is not progressing. Initially hesitant to comment, calling it "child's play" and "theatrics," he elaborates that these are the only topics brought to him because this is what society has become. He observes that people are no longer interested in higher scriptures or profound philosophical questions, such as the connection between existentialism and Advaita Vedanta, because no one is reading them anymore. He explains this trend as the "infantilization" of everything, including deities. Citing AI-generated images of a four-year-old goddess and the popular depiction of a young Krishna, he says people do this because they themselves do not want to grow up. Their fatal ego makes their deities small to match their own level, turning them into playthings. He quotes Kabir Saheb, who said, "People have made God their toy." This is done for entertainment, especially during festivals like Navratri, where even those with no connection to religion participate for the sake of revelry, music, and dance. Acharya Prashant introduces the concept of "Lok Dharma" or folk religion, which he defines as a religion that is a puppet of the ego, habits, and culture. He asserts that 99.99% of people follow this folk religion, which is the opposite of true religion, not merely a distorted version of it. He describes it as poison to the roots of true religion, designed to destroy it. The ego wants to be bigger than the truth, so it makes the truth small. This perversion of religion, where it becomes a tool to serve one's desires and habits, is presented as the root of all of India's backwardness. He concludes that the power of religion is meant to uplift human beings, but when that very power is handicapped and made into a toy, there is no way for people to rise. The adult forms of deities like Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, or the fierce form of the Goddess, which challenge our smallness, are ignored. Instead, their childlike forms are worshipped because it allows the ego to feel superior. This is the hypocrisy where people claim to be religious but are only seeking entertainment and refuse to acknowledge the truth of their backwardness.