Romantic Delusion || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Is it necessary to be in a relationship? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Warangal (2022)

Transcript

00:00All the romance and the fairy-tale-ish delusion you build around sex is just there to conceal

00:11our animalism. Nothing more than that. And by that, I'm not asking you to absolutely abstain

00:18from other gender or even sex, right? But before you get into something, is it not important that

00:24you know what that thing is very clearly? Maybe there is a 0.01% probability that it may come

00:29from some other place. But do you belong to 0.01% in anything in life? Then how will it

00:35happen that only in this matter, you will belong to an especially exclusive and elite club to which

00:41let's say Krishna and Radha belonged. And you want to discount the 99.99% probability. That is

00:47something you want to discount. And you want to hang on to hope. The 0.01% hope. No, no, no, I'm not

00:53chasing her just for sex. It is for the sake of my enlightenment that I want to take her to bed.

00:58Seriously?