Real Love Demands Wisdom || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Are you capable of love? || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2023)

Transcript

00:00If everybody becomes so enlightened as you are, people will probably not fall in love,

00:06people will probably not reproduce, people will probably not follow their biological mandate.

00:13When people are wise, that's the only time they can be in love.

00:18Wisdom and love go together.

00:20When you know who you are, when you have some insight into yourself,

00:24that's when you become capable of love for the first time.

00:27Most people spend their entire lives not loving,

00:31not because they didn't find someone worthy enough to be loved,

00:36but because they were fundamentally incapable of loving anything.

00:41But our education does not teach us what real love is.

00:44So what do we have? We have animalistic love.

00:46And we think of that as the only love possible.

00:49The result is a very loveless society, a loveless earth that we have.