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You really like being so little? || Acharya Prashant, on 'Listen, Little Man!' (2019)
Scriptures and Saints
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Conditioning
Consciousness
Free will
Self-observation
Liberation
Suffering
Responsibility
Maturity
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that every human being is born into a state of 'littleness,' which refers to a mind operating within a predefined, conditioned zone. This conditioning is a bundle of biological and environmental factors that a child has no choice over. For the first several years of life, a child lacks an internal locus of control or a 'watching consciousness' because the brain is not yet physically mature enough to support self-observation. Therefore, no one is to be blamed for their initial conditioning or background, as it is a congenital state of being.