Friends with opposite gender? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Can a man and a woman be just friends? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

Transcript

00:00So if you cannot be friends with an animal, some part of your humanness remains unawakened.

00:06And I will say, if you cannot be friends with a person of the opposite sex,

00:13an important part of yourself will remain unnourished, unawakened, uneducated, unaddressed.

00:20That's what happens to people who may move only in same-sex groups.

00:25They remain boorish. You understand boorish?

00:27Uncultured, unsophisticated, undeveloped.

00:30If a man and a woman cannot be friends, then they'll be missing out on the wholeness of life.

00:37How will you understand life if you do not understand women?

00:40How will you understand yourself if you do not understand women?

00:43And vice versa.