Does Marriage End Love? || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Don't let love turn into a relationship || Acharya Prashant, archives (2013)

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00:00The society hates lovers, but it loves husbands and wives.

00:03It will say, go quickly get married.

00:05Doesn't matter, you don't love each other, doesn't matter, go and get married.

00:07Marriage is good, love is bad.

00:09Somebody has said that lovers die and on their corpses, husbands and wives are born.

00:14It's only when lovers are dead that husbands and wives arise.

00:18Because love cannot have a name.

00:20Love is not a fixed relationship.

00:22But our mind, our poor little mind, it cannot tolerate the freshness of love.

00:27It has no power to live with the absolute uncertainty and wildness of love.

00:35So what does it do?

00:36It says, let's give a name to our relationship.

00:38Let's formalize our agreement.

00:40Let's take the sanction of the society.

00:42The more names you are giving it, the more trouble you are creating for yourself.

00:47You are thinking that all this is happening out of love.

00:51I'm saying all this is taking you out of love.