True Love! || Acharya Prashant

Full video: How to truly love others? || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagavad Gita (2020)

Transcript

00:00To love is to see that the other is in trouble. To love is to extend a helping hand.

00:07Love is not about admiring somebody's physicality or using someone for some means.

00:18Love has to be an exercise in compassion.

00:21So, I often say, when you relate to the other, relate either to uplift or to be uplifted.

00:29But only two kinds of associations are right in this world.

00:35If you associate with someone who is at a higher level of consciousness, then hold his hand so that he can uplift you.

00:45And if you associate with someone who is at a lower level of consciousness, then hold his hand to uplift him.

00:52Any other kind of relationship is junk.