Do We Need Jealousy? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Jealousy is very much something that evolution taught you and you needed it.

00:05Especially jealousy in gender relations, the man-woman stuff.

00:08Animals have a lot of jealousy. Jealousy is a survival tool.

00:13Animals have a lot of attachment. Animals compete. Animals are violent.

00:17Animals even deceive each other. All these are survival tools.

00:20Animals monopolize areas. Animals have escape and defense mechanisms.

00:24All these are needed for physical survival.

00:27My question to you is, do you need these things really for your survival?

00:31Even physical survival.

00:32If you don't need all these things, why are you harboring them?

00:36Nurturing them? Why?

00:37The chimpanzee needs these things. Let the chimpanzee have them.

00:41You don't need these things. Throw them away.