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आठवीं क्लास के आशिक || आचार्य प्रशांत के नीम लड्डू
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Love
Kabir Saheb
Spirituality
Peace
Natural Attraction
Eligibility for Love
Attachment
Restlessness
Description

Acharya Prashant expresses his astonishment at how people, even those as young as 14 or 16, who lack basic knowledge and skills, readily claim to understand love. He questions how someone who doesn't know mathematics, geography, how to walk straight, converse properly, manage their anger, or be punctual can possibly know how to love. He asks if love is something that requires no eligibility at all. He anticipates the common retort that love is a matter of the heart that a stone-hearted, bookish person wouldn't understand, and that one must experience nature to know love. He calls it the world's greatest wonder that even the most incapable person is certain they can love. The speaker argues that this flawed understanding of love is a result of wrong education from sources like movies and poets. He refutes the notion that love is natural, that animals know it, or that it can be learned from a child. He clarifies that a child knows attachment, affection, and infatuation, but not love. Love, he asserts, must be learned. Man is the only creature capable of knowing love because love is fundamentally spiritual. The ability to love belongs only to one who has understood the mind and its restlessness. The attraction of the restless mind towards peace is what constitutes love. Acharya Prashant distinguishes between two types of attraction. The first is natural attraction, which is often mistaken for love. Its purpose is security, sustenance, and procreation. The second is spiritual attraction, which is true love, and its sole purpose is to attain peace. Love is meaningful only when it leads you towards a direction where you can find true peace. He explains that the natural attraction between a man and a woman is for procreation, not peace. The spiritual attraction, however, is for peace. Therefore, love requires eligibility and eyes that can look at oneself more than the other. If one's eyes are fixated on another, it is a sign of being an animal, not of love, because an animal cannot look within itself. The uniqueness of being human is the ability to see and understand oneself. When you understand the cause of your inner turmoil and restlessness, only then can you be drawn towards the solution and peace. This movement towards peace is love. He concludes by quoting Kabir Saheb: "Everyone says 'love, love', but no one knows what love is. The path on which one meets the master, that is called love." He advises that to test whether an experience is of love, one must check the path it leads to. If it leads to the 'master'—the state of liberation and peace—it is love. If it leads to something else, it is not.