Temporary Relationships || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Casual relationships, quick breakups || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Hyderabad (2022)

Transcript

00:00Why do you relate to someone or why do people relate to someone?

00:02Because you think you will get something. As simple as that, right?

00:05If you get what you want, you are done. The relationship is exhausted.

00:09You go to a snacks bar. How long can you stay there?

00:13Will you build your home there? There is the hot dog.

00:15The hot dog is quite tempting. You take the hot dog and then you walk out.

00:19And that's how you walk out of a relationship.

00:21The hot dog has been ingested. The hot dog is in the stomach now.

00:24What will you do? Standing there anymore?

00:27You can return some other day for some other hot dog or burger maybe this time.

00:31When the entire philosophy of life is centered on consumption,

00:36I exist to feed and fatten myself. And by doing that, I'll be happy.

00:40Then what will you remain with some human being for?

00:44If you are with anything and everything just for the sake of fattening yourself,

00:49consuming, which is exploitation in a way.

00:51Then even with human beings, you will remain only to consume them, right?

00:56And we get bored because other things are available to be consumed.