Desire Fuels Renunciation || Acharya Prashant

Rapid Fire round with Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2023)

Transcript

00:00Desire or renunciation?

00:02Desire.

00:03Explain.

00:04The fundamental thing is love.

00:06Love is the highest desire.

00:07It is only when you desire the highest

00:11that you will have the guts or the daring

00:15to drop the lowly things which you call as renunciation.

00:18So renunciation can never come first.

00:21Love is the mother of renunciation.

00:23If you are in love, you will without even knowing

00:27drop a lot of nonsense and you will become a renunciate

00:31and you won't even know that.

00:32So love will bring about renunciation.

00:35At the same time, renunciation without love won't last

00:39and would become some kind of hypocrisy.