True love is not a biological instinct, emotional attachment, or social conditioning. Biology and science explain the body's drives, but they cannot explain the self that seeks freedom. Love is the inner restlessness to move from ignorance and bondage toward truth and liberation. Religion is not rituals or inherited beliefs but this personal journey of understanding. Freedom—not possession or conformity—is the essence of both love and religion.
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Questioner: Nature has made us such that we always make groups and love them. For example, we start from family, then caste, then religion. Even the countries are also man-made lines. So, isn't it the basic nature? Nature has kind of made all living beings like that, to make a group. So, what would be the actual difference between love itself and man-made love?
Acharya Prashant: You have an exam tomorrow. The body feels like sleeping, right? The body feels like sleeping. But then you say you have to study. There are two of you. Please understand. And we have talked of it. There is the participant, and there is the observer. There are two within.
So, when you say, “Nature has made me like this,” which “me” are you talking of? This one or this one? There is one that wants to sleep. There is that one that wants to study. You have an exam tomorrow. Which one are you talking of?
Questioner: Yes.
