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Why are you desperate after that? || AP Neem Candies
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Tendency
Relationship
Dependence
Attachment
Incompleteness
Value
Craving
Questioning
Description

Acharya Prashant questions why people get into a series of relationships, asking whether it is because the other person is extremely important or attractive, or if it is more about an internal "tendency to get related." He posits that if we have this tendency, we will find an object for our attachment, irrespective of the object's worth. This is likened to a very hungry person eating whatever is available. This tendency stems from a feeling of "I need, I need, I must have somebody." The speaker explains that when this tendency manifests in a relationship with a person, the result is very obvious, gross, and physical, with a big impact. He suggests that to avoid big disappointments, one should take care of this tendency in smaller matters. The person who gets attached to a man likely has many other small, unnoticed attachments and identifications. Because these are small, their consequences are also small, and they "fly under the radar," leaving one vulnerable to larger mistakes. He illustrates this with an example: if you cannot live without a particular dress, how can you live without a man? The same tendency for attachment exhibits itself in relationships with people. Therefore, one must experiment with their dependencies. He advises being cautious in small matters to avoid suffering in big matters. Before or during a craving, one should ask the "miraculous question": "Is the thing really so important?" This reveals that nothing is as important as we allow it to be. The speaker concludes that no object or person has any absolute value. The value we see in things comes from our own sense of incompleteness. The more value we give to something, the more we reinforce our belief that we need it, which proves our inner hollowness. He urges listeners to catch these dependencies when they appear in small matters, like being particular about a certain food or color, as this is not discipline but dependence. This same dependence on small things can lead to dependence on big things, like a person.