There are only two kinds of relationships that are right in this world. If you connect with someone at a higher level of consciousness, hold their hand so they can uplift you. If you connect with someone at a lower level of consciousness, hold their hand to uplift them. Any other kind of relationship is junk.
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Questioner: After seeing the fakeness in people and in my own actions, it gets very difficult to love someone. There comes the feeling of hatred; the feeling of compassion does not remain constant. The mind gets affected. How can one go beyond these pairs of opposites and truly love the other and the self while on this journey?
Acharya Prashant: You see, ‘love’ has to be understood.
We want something, right? We want the Ultimate. There’s nobody who wants to stop at something small. We want something as big as possible, right? That’s the nature of desire, correct? It doesn’t want to stop anywhere. Probably, it can stop only when it gets something immeasurable, infinite. That’s what we want. And that thing that we all want is sometimes referred to as Truth, or the Ultimate; colloquially, it has also been called as ‘God’. That’s what we want. That’s our shared and deepest, real desire.
So, there are these two.
