Desire vs Love || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: If you love it, you deserve to have it (Love is the Qualification) || Acharya Prashant (2022)

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00:00As young people, you must learn to differentiate between desire and love.

00:05And that's probably the most important distinction you can ever make in life.

00:11Because desire runs amok when you are 18, 20, 25, 30, our desires are mostly blind.

00:18Sometimes we follow the crowd.

00:19Sometimes there is the trend.

00:21Sometimes there is just pure ignorance and instinct and impulse arising from the body

00:25or your past or your experiences or the pressures the society applies on you and you just run

00:32after something.

00:33Be it an educational degree, be it a particular type of career, a job offer, a thing, something

00:39in the market, a new dress, a new vehicle, a new phone, a new gadget, a new boy, a new

00:44girl.

00:46Somebody asks you, but why are you running in that direction?

00:50We don't even take the pains to understand what's going on within.

00:55Instead, we respond with brevado, what, you know, love is blind.

01:01As if ignorance were not sufficient, we top it up by saying love is blind.