The Illusion of Settling Down || Acharya Prashant

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00:00We are forcefully made to believe that the purpose of life is to chase a man or a woman

00:08and the highest possible ideal is to spend time or life with some nice and right person.

00:16That is what you also call as settling down.

00:18That ideal is ingrained in our minds from a very very early age and it refuses to leave

00:25us even after we turn 80 or 90.

00:29What is life for?

00:30Life is not for a noble cause.

00:32Life is not for liberation.

00:34Life is not for knowledge.

00:36Life is not for exploration.

00:38Life is so that you can have somebody's hand in your hand.

00:42Life is for romance, right?

00:44It becomes impossible for us to even imagine a life that is not welded to somebody else's.

00:54What else is welding?

00:55Welding.

00:56That's why so much fire is there.