Something so cheap? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Love is not natural, Love has to be learnt || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023) Link: https://youtu.be/xh7OJrYimF8

Transcript

00:00Real love cannot be something so cheap that it starts coming naturally to you the day you are 14.

00:07Now I am 14, my hormones are active, my glands are overactive, there is puberty, so I am in love.

00:15And I couldn't have been in love at the age of 10 or 11.

00:18How is it so that love of the kind that we know of happens only after you cross a certain age?

00:24Obviously that's not love, that's something of the body.

00:26And if certain hormones are taken away from the body, that kind of love cannot happen, right?

00:32So what love is that? That's just iron and magnet, sodium and water, a chemical reaction, that's what that love is.

00:38But unfortunately, even very, very intelligent people, brilliant in their fields of occupation, brilliant in dealing with the objective world,

00:51when it comes to love, they do not know their mind, they do not know what is happening within.

00:55And then they make disastrous life choices.