Who is a worthy lover? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The effect of your lover on your life || Acharya Prashant, on Vedanta (2020) ~~~~~~~~~~~~

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00:00Is your lover enfeebling you, enslaving you or empowering you?

00:05Ask yourself.

00:06Somebody who limits you, cages you, mostly in the name of care,

00:11cannot be your friend, let alone lover.

00:15Somebody who allows you to comfortably exist with your weaknesses,

00:19cannot be a worthy lover.

00:22Somebody who doesn't challenge your falsenesses, cannot be your lover.

00:26Somebody who says, oh I love you as you are,

00:29just cannot be your lover, run away.

00:32Your lover has to be somebody who keeps refusing you 40 times a day.

00:38Because you deserve to be refused, don't you?

00:40What do you think of yourself?

00:42Don't we deserve to be corrected again and again?

00:45Don't we deserve to be shown the light again and again?

00:48How can you be with someone who says no,

00:52I like you as you are, dull, gloomy, ignorant?