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बुद्धिमत्ता, सरलता और डर || आचार्य प्रशांत (2018)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Intelligence
Innocence
Conditioning
Biological Instincts
Purity
Perception
Liberation
Tendencies
Description

Acharya Prashant clarifies the spiritual definitions of intelligence and innocence, explaining that innocence is the absence of layers or impurities on the eyes, while intelligence is the resulting ability to see the world clearly because those layers are absent. He emphasizes that these two qualities are deeply interconnected; innocence is the state of purity, and intelligence is the clear perception that arises from that purity. He refutes the idea that children are born without conditioning, asserting that the physical body itself is the primary conditioning. A child is born with thousands of innate tendencies, including fear, insecurity, jealousy, and confusion, which are biological rather than social. While children may be free from social conditioning, they are fully bound by biological instincts and animalistic behavior. Acharya Prashant concludes that liberation comes from observing and identifying these biological and social conditionings; by recognizing their symptoms and how they project themselves, one can gradually become free from them.