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Love is not an isolated explosion, it is a continuous resonance || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Acharya Prashant
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Love
Meditation
Present Moment
Silence
Divinity
Ego
Beauty
Continuity
Description

Acharya Prashant challenges the common notion that love is a rare, explosive event, arguing that such a view makes love significant only to the ego because it happens sporadically. He explains that while explosions are memorable and historical, they are infrequent and leave a dent on the mind. In contrast, he compares true love to a continuously flowing river, like the Sava or the Ganges, which exists twenty-four hours a day without cessation. He asserts that love is the very pull and movement of the mind toward peace, relaxation, and truth, and it should be experienced every moment rather than as a rare, short-lived flower. The speaker points out that by defining beauty and love as rare, humans inadvertently condemn the omnipresent and easily available aspects of life as ugly. This mindset leads people to wait for grand, impossible moments of liberation while missing the affection and reality of the present. He criticizes the habit of closing one's eyes for meditation, suggesting that it is often an escape into an imaginary 'la-la land' that robs an individual of the reality raining upon them in the moment. By assigning specific hours to meditation, people often use it as a way to avoid being meditative during the rest of their lives. Acharya Prashant concludes that divinity and love do not make distinctions or come in discrete intervals; they are continuously present without a break. He redefines meditation not as closing one's eyes to go inward, but as opening one's eyes to the present. He describes love as a continuous explosion so constant that it becomes silence. Since only the present moment has the characteristic of never being absent, he maintains that only living in the present can truly be considered meditation and love.