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Does love lie in action? || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Acharya Prashant
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Love
Action
Inaction
Identity
Self
Fidelity
Disloyalty
Constancy
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that love is far more expansive than action or inaction, as both can exist within love. He emphasizes that in love, one's identity and name become unimportant because love plays with identities and makes a mockery of names. Love does not allow an individual to remain a fixed person; instead, everything else becomes negotiable and fungible while love remains constant. He describes love as a state where one is no particular self, leading to a situation where the actor and their actions are constantly changing and appearing inconsistent. This fluidity often appears as madness to observers, but at the heart of these changing faces is a singular desire for love. He concludes by noting that people often mistake changing faces for disloyalty or constant faces for fidelity, failing to understand how to love that which has no particular face.