What is Life for? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00If you think of 10 jokes that make you laugh, 7 or 8 or 9 would be sex related, right?

00:06Directly or indirectly.

00:08We are forcefully made to believe that the purpose of life is to chase a man or a woman.

00:16And the highest possible ideal is to spend time or life with some nice and right person.

00:24That is what you also call a settling down.

00:25That ideal is ingrained in our minds from a very, very early age.

00:31And it refuses to leave us even after we turn 80 or 90.

00:36What is life for?

00:37Life is not for a noble cause.

00:40Life is not for liberation.

00:42Life is not for knowledge.

00:44Life is not for exploration.

00:46Life is so that you can have somebody's hand in your hand.