Teach the kids that they are not just Prakriti

On World Population day, following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant, addressing the issue of population explosion.

If you really want to educate kids, educate kids of this generation and not the coming generation and educate kids of this generation not to have kids.

Do not talk the language of the old and deeply conditioned grandmother whose deepest wish is that the tribe keeps growing. If you have followed me to this point, you should also be able to see the shape that the right education for today’s generation should take.

If you look at rabbits, they are merely Prakriti. So, they are conditioned to procreate.

If we want this generation to not to procreate what must be taught to them? That you are not just ‘prakriti.’ This is the education that you need to disseminate.

Rabbits will reproduce because they are just prakriti and that’s what prakriti wants. More copies of the rabbit DNA. Because more copies mean more chances of survival. It is like taking a back up of a hard disk. It is like if there are two copies, the chances of survival are double. One copy might get lost, then the other copy survives. And that’s why rabbits procreate so copiously, so frequently because they are small and defenseless. They know that a lot of…