Who is a worthy lover? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The effect of your lover on your life || Acharya Prashant, on Vedanta (2020) Link: https://youtu.be/MrdDPgxtMGw

Transcript

00:00Is your lover enfeebling you, enslaving you or empowering you?

00:06Ask yourself.

00:08Somebody who limits you, cages you, mostly in the name of care, cannot be your friend

00:16let alone lover.

00:18Somebody who allows you to comfortably exist with your weaknesses cannot be a worthy lover.

00:25Somebody who doesn't challenge your falsenesses cannot be your lover.

00:31Somebody who says, oh I love you as you are, just cannot be your lover, run away.

00:37Your lover has to be somebody who keeps refusing you 40 times a day.

00:44Don't we deserve to be corrected again and again?

00:48Don't we deserve to be shown the light again and again?

00:50How can you be with someone who says, no, I like you as you are, dull, gloomy, ignorant?