Is it necessary to be in a relationship? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Warangal (2022)
Questioner (Q): Good evening, sir. I am pursuing my BTech in civil engineering from NIT-Warangal. Sir, my first question is that our friends are currently in relationships while we are not. But at the same time, we have to focus on our studies as well, but inside us, there is the feeling which says, “You should be there in a relationship,” so sir, is it really necessary to be in a relationship? And if not, then what is this feeling inside us?
Acharya Prashant (AP): See, the feeling inside is just the feeling every creature of flesh and blood has in its youth. It’s just a physical thing. Mother nature wants you to have a partner from the opposite sex and sooner or later reproduce, that’s the feeling. There is nothing more to that.
There is nothing mystical about that. It’s not coming from some unknown source, it’s a very obvious thing — you watch the animals, you come to know. Don’t you see? You didn’t have these feelings just five or seven years back, and that’s pretty recent.
Just five years back, you would have been thirteen or fifteen and this kind of feeling would not have been there or wouldn’t have been as intense at least. And now you are eighteen or twenty or something and maybe twenty-two and the feeling is stronger. It is the age of the body; it is the stage of that, nothing more than that.
Q: Sir, not in that sense. We see our friends moving with their partners, shopping with them. Is the feeling jealousy or a need to share our thoughts with someone?
