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Is it necessary to be in a relationship? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Warangal (2022)
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3 years ago
Relationship
Desire
Sex
Biology
Mother Nature
Reproduction
Self-awareness
Animalism
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a young man's question about the feeling of needing to be in a relationship. The speaker explains that this feeling is fundamentally a physical and biological urge common to every creature of flesh and blood in its youth. He attributes this to Mother Nature's desire for individuals to find a partner from the opposite sex and reproduce. He asserts that there is nothing mystical or from an unknown source about this feeling; it is an obvious phenomenon observable in animals. The speaker points out that this feeling was not present a few years ago when the questioner was younger but has become stronger with age, which is a natural stage of the body's development. When the questioner suggests the feeling might be about jealousy or the need to share thoughts, Acharya Prashant dismisses these as shams. He states that one can share thoughts with male friends as well, and the need for a female partner for this purpose is a pretense. He bluntly identifies the core of this desire as being about sex, which people try to mask with more respectable concepts like sharing emotions or lives. He clarifies that he is not denigrating this urge or advocating for celibacy, but emphasizing the importance of being clear about what this desire truly is: an "animal thing" and nothing more. The speaker further elaborates that the romantic and fairytale-like delusions built around sex serve only to conceal our inherent "animalism." He reiterates that he is not asking the questioner to abstain from relationships or sex, but to have self-awareness and understand the true nature of his actions when pursuing a girl. He acknowledges that at a young age, it is almost impossible not to chase girls, as it is a biological mandate in our DNA. Therefore, if one must engage in it, it is crucial to do so with the knowledge of what it truly is, without being self-deluded.