Parenting & Family Quote by Deepak Chopra

Chopra’s line plays like a soft-edged provocation: if bliss is a baby’s default setting, then adulthood isn’t a journey toward happiness so much as a gradual misplacement of it. The claim is less about infant psychology than about a spiritual baseline. “Nature” does heavy lifting here, smuggling in inevitability and moral authority. Bliss isn’t earned, performed, or optimized; it’s framed as original equipment. That’s classic Chopra: take a felt truth (babies seem unburdened, freshly arrived) and turn it into a metaphysical argument about who we were before culture, anxiety, and self-consciousness moved in.

The subtext aims directly at modern self-help fatigue. If bliss is innate, then the wellness-industrial complex looks faintly absurd: a sprawling marketplace selling us elaborate routes back to a state we supposedly started in. It also offers a consoling reframing of suffering. Stress, shame, and status-chasing become add-ons, not essence - detachable layers rather than identity. That’s why the sentence is so sticky: it converts nostalgia into a program.

Context matters, though. Chopra emerged as a bridge figure between Western medicine’s authority and New Age spirituality’s promise, and this line is part of that bridge-building. It borrows the aura of observation (“babies”) to legitimize a philosophical proposition (“bliss”). The rhetorical move is disarming: argue with it and you risk sounding like someone who’s mad at babies. Yet the idealization is strategic. Babies also cry, panic, and rage - which is precisely the point: “bliss” here isn’t constant pleasure, it’s pre-ego immediacy, life before the narrative voice starts grading every moment.