What is Love? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Love is not natural, Love has to be learnt || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Transcript

00:00What is love? That which quenches the mind's thirst is love.

00:05The mind is always in a state of attraction.

00:07It is attracted to something that would bring peace to it.

00:12So what then is love?

00:13Something that would really bring peace to you.

00:17That is love.

00:18Not hormonal activity.

00:19That cannot be love.

00:20But what we find is that men are necessarily attracted to women.

00:23Women are necessarily attracted to men.

00:25Obviously that has to be hormonal.

00:27Even if men are attracted to men, that's for sexual reasons.

00:30So even that is hormonal.

00:31That is not love.

00:32That is just the jungle.

00:34That's just the old natural prakritic game of reproduction playing itself out.

00:40Love has to be earned.

00:42And that's what all spiritual pursuit is about.

00:44Learning love.