Let Love be your Centre || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Balancing Act: Juggling Multiple Roles and Responsibilities || Acharya Prashant, IIT-Hyderabad(2024)

Transcript

00:00Oh, if I devote too much time to my hobby, what happens to my girlfriend?

00:04Because she is the greatest demand on my time.

00:06If you love badminton, it would be great to have a badminton player as your girlfriend, maybe.

00:11Won't be wonderful to date on the court.

00:14Your boss wants one thing, your wife wants another thing.

00:16And you can deny neither your boss nor your wife.

00:19So there is a great inner strife.

00:21You are at the center of your life.

00:23If there are things in your life, things, objects, thoughts, people,

00:27who cannot sit with each other, who cannot reconcile to each other,

00:32then life becomes a problem, no?

00:35We have examples where there were couples as freedom fighters.

00:38For any of that to happen, first of all, there must be a strong center in life.

00:43Something that you can give your life to.

00:45And if you have that one primary love in your life,

00:48everything else gets peacefully settled around it.

00:52Have one center and let that one center express itself in innumerable ways.