Full Video: Desire, Love and Maturity || Acharya Prashant, International Psychology Summit (2023)
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00:00My question is related to maturity. Is maturity just a function of physical age?
00:06Maturity is not necessarily a function of age. Maturity is when you can transcend your body,
00:12and by body I mean the bodily compulsions. So when you can transcend the urges of the body,
00:23the instincts, the thoughts, the feelings, then you deserve to be called mature.
00:29As long as you are body driven, and thought driven, and emotion driven,
00:34and you don't have discretion, you cannot see what is going on, you cannot be called mature.
00:39To some extent it can be a function of age, but not necessarily. You can have 80 years old,
00:46living and dying very immaturely, quite possible. And we have had several instances where people of
00:54small age, relatively young people, they displayed great maturity.