It's all situational. You never know why it is happening. Indian philosophy calls it mere sanyog. All kinds of sanyog—it is not knowable. Prakriti is an endless network of cause and effect. You look at an effect—you can never pinpoint what the cause is. Because the causes themselves are infinite. And it is not a straight chain of causes. It is at least a two-dimensional network of causes. Not a straight chain—this causes that. Everything is affecting something else.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. Words like situationship have become common in today's relationships. In this, people are close to each other but without any commitment. This sometimes seems very attractive, but such relationships have no depth or any stability. Can such a relationship satisfy a person? Please help me understand.
Acharya Prashant: You think a situationship—what is not situational? You see, there are two kinds of relationships. One that is situational and is accepted as situational. For example, the fellow on the seat next to you on a bus, there you are able to neatly accept that the relationship is just situational. "I am 36A, and he is 36B, so he is sitting next to me." That's fine.
And then there are situational relationships that are taken as volitional. So there are SS relationships—where the relationship is situational and seen as situational. 36A, 36B. And then there are SV relationships—where it is situational but is named, labeled, or tagged as volitional.
