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Parents, apologize to your children! || Acharya Prashant (2019)
Prakrati
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Procreation
Parenting
Liberation
Responsibility
Suffering
Debt
Social Myths
Mental Maturity
Description

Acharya Prashant asserts that parents must apologize to their children for bringing them into a world characterized by agony, longing, and suffering. He explains that raising a child, providing education, and spending money are not favors but necessary compensations for the indiscretion of procreation. Whether a birth is planned or unplanned, it is described as an act of indiscretion for which parents are penalized by existence, citing the physical toll on the mother and the financial costs of birth as forms of fines or penalties. He argues that the child is the creditor and the parents are the debtors, reversing the traditional view that children owe a debt to their parents. He further emphasizes that the body is a cage and bringing a person into existence is a crime because it creates unnecessary suffering. The minimum obligation of parents is to provide an environment that enables the child's liberation from bodily and social identifications. Acharya Prashant warns that most people lack the mental maturity required to be parents, suggesting that those who are truly mature would likely choose not to procreate. He concludes by urging people to look beyond social myths and fairy tales surrounding parenthood to understand the reality of the responsibility and debt they are undertaking.