Emotional Dependency || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Emotional dependency and loneliness || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2020) ~~~~~~~~~~~

Transcript

00:00So how to overcome emotional dependency and loneliness?

00:04We are born feeling that something is not quite right about us.

00:10What did the newborn ask mommy?

00:12Now who did this?

00:15That's what is born.

00:17Loneliness and dependency.

00:18And it will continue.

00:19May you live till 126.

00:21You will find that loneliness still haunts you.

00:24How to challenge this problem then?

00:26Then you have to exist in a different way altogether.

00:29Bring the big ones in.

00:31Without them life is anyway not worth living.

00:33In the state I am talking of,

00:36you are looking at yourself and asking,

00:37how the hell I have allowed these two rats to still be present in my room?

00:42One is my ex.

00:43The other is this new contender,

00:45who keeps sending me this occasional feeler.

00:47Hey, which brand of coffee do you like?