Love Without Possession || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Love, and images of love || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Transcript

00:00If you must be with a person, here is some advice.

00:04Be with someone who does not excite you.

00:07Be with someone in whose company you feel as if there is no one with you.

00:12You feel alone.

00:13Do not be with someone who makes his or her presence felt.

00:17Be with someone who brings you close not to himself but to yourself.

00:22All the lovers in the world want to bring you to themselves.

00:26They will bring you to themselves and then imprison you.

00:29They will say you belong to me, I possess you.

00:31Rather be with someone who brings you to yourself.

00:34Who says, I am setting you free.

00:37Be with a man or woman who takes you to your heart.

00:41Not with someone who is intent upon filling up your mind.

00:46If someone keeps on coming and again in your thoughts, it cannot be good for you.

00:50If the very thought of someone makes you unsettled, even if in a pleasant way,

00:56then it is not auspicious for you.