Only a healthy mind can have healthy relationships || With youth (2014)

Acharya Prashant

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Only a healthy mind can have healthy relationships || With youth (2014)

Questioner (Q): Sir, my parents always told me to make friends, to be social. You are saying concentrate on yourself. Sir, my question is that how to manage between our social life and also concentrate on ourselves?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Lovely! Good. Very good. I am glad that we are uncovering a lot of things. Friends, social life, being social, relationships; that’s what we are entering now. Can a slave really be friends with anybody?

Q: Yes, Sir.

AP: Really? What can a sick man give to others except his own sickness? There is a basket of apples, and there is one rotten apple there; sick, not healthy. What will this apple give to the other apples? Only rottenness. A man who is confused, full of violence, can he love? Will he radiate love and joy to others? He will always radiate his own confusion and violence to others.

When you say that 'I want to be friends with somebody', you want to be a well-wisher. How can you do good to somebody when you could not do good to yourself? The fellow could not help himself all his life, how can he help somebody else? Service is beautiful, you want to serve others, you want to love somebody, you want to be friends with somebody and you want to do good to the society. Wonderful! But how can you do good to the society, when you do not even know what is meant by doing good? You are so confused!

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