Why we marry? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Love is not natural, Love has to be learnt || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Transcript

00:00If it is certain that there is no possibility of sex, would you ever marry?

00:05Then you know what you marry for.

00:06You can marry if you know no money is involved.

00:09You can marry if you know that the right caste is not involved.

00:13You can marry even if a lot of other desirable things are not in the picture.

00:19You will still somehow tolerate the marriage.

00:22But you cannot tolerate the marriage if there is no sex involved.

00:25When the law says that if there is no sex for a period of X months, then the couple

00:30is entitled to be divorced.

00:33You can be separated because there is no real action happening.

00:38Love is not so cheap that you will just get it the hormonal way, without doing anything,

00:43without putting in any effort, without earning it.

00:46Love has to be earned.

00:48And that's what all spiritual pursuit is about.

00:51Learning love.

00:52Learning love.