Real meaning of Self-Love || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Love and Detachment || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2022)

Transcript

00:00If you really have self-love, then you want to know what is going on in your life.

00:04Or are you saying that everything in the world is important except yourself?

00:08I am not important, my life is not important. How many of you want to say that?

00:12Please, if you are important and your life is important,

00:15then which knowledge is the most important?

00:18Self-knowledge, right?

00:19But we have been told that you must be knowledgeable about everything,

00:22history, constitution, geography, of course PCM.

00:26You must also know international affairs and geopolitics.

00:29You must also know NFTs and Bitcoin and crypto.

00:33And you know all these things.

00:34What is it that you do not know of?

00:36The self.

00:36Because the self is of no use.

00:38Because we are worthless.

00:39Everything is worthy of being known.

00:41But we are worthless.

00:42Why should we know ourselves?