From Boy to Boyfriend! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Identity, Ambition, and the Search for Fulfillment || Acharya Prashant

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00:00How do you become a boyfriend from a boy?

00:03You are a mere boy and there is a girl sitting next to you.

00:06For this you will have to use the object sitting next to you, the girl.

00:10Once the girl agrees, you find you have graduated to being a boyfriend from just being a boy.

00:17So now you have to use that object next to you.

00:20That object is a conscious being.

00:22That object has some will of her own.

00:26But for you to satisfy your urge to become somebody else, you will have to use her and

00:33objectify her.

00:37And she may not want that.

00:39And then there is conflict.

00:40Whatever you are currently, since that is not sufficient, so you want to become somebody

00:47else.

00:48And the entire process of becoming is a process of conflict.