Studies Over Girlfriend || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Balancing Studies and Relationships: Is It Achievable? || Acharya Prashant, IIT-Hyderabad (2024)

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00:00Can someone be in a healthy relationship along with their studies?

00:04How do I assess if I have to choose if it's an either or situation whether to go for R1 or R2?

00:10R1 is relationship with your books or syllabus or something and R2 is your relationship with a person.

00:16If R1 and R2 are to be weighed against each other, I will have to look at the influence they are having on my life.

00:23That's the only way you can come to a decision.

00:25What do those books and that knowledge, what is it that brings to your life versus what is it that person brings to your life?

00:32When you are with that person, how do you change? What do you become?

00:36Does your consciousness elevate?

00:39And there are several toxic books as well.

00:41If the book is of nature that it contaminates your mind, induces prejudice or bigotry, then you should stay away even from books.

00:51The thing is to see that you are important.

00:55and there they are all the same, which is the person who has written in the history.