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Love and Detachment || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2022)
Acharya Prashant
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Self-knowledge
Detachment
Self-love
Objectivity
Realism
Bias
Internal Investigation
Mediocrity
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the difficulty of maintaining objectivity when investigating one's own life compared to analyzing external phenomena. He explains that while it is easy to be objective in a laboratory setting where one is not personally involved, internal investigation often becomes a messy affair because the subject is personally invested. He introduces the concept that true detachment is not the opposite of love but a product of it. If one truly loves themselves, they will not want to remain in a state of suffering or delusion and will therefore seek to understand their internal reality neutrally and without prejudice.