Long Phone Calls || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: When to express your emotions? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Calicut (2022)

Transcript

00:00What do you think lovers talk about in their daily four-hour phone calls?

00:07Are they sharing scientific discoveries with each other?

00:11Are they sharing sublime literature with each other?

00:14Great poems?

00:16Are they talking of depths of wisdom?

00:21Are they discussing geopolitics?

00:23Are they discussing neuroscience?

00:25Are they discussing anything of any worth?

00:28They are expressing themselves to each other and you know what that's all about.

00:33Let the sound of rubbish being flushed down the commode reverberate.

00:39That's the telephonic conversation.

00:42And they think of it as closeness, as love.

00:45It is not love.

00:46Love is to handhold the other and pull him up.

00:49Not bury the other under the weight of your infinite nonsense.