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मैं तड़पा हूँ, इसलिए तेरी भी तड़प समझता हूँ || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
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Love
Well-being
Self-knowledge
Suffering
Empathy
Thought
Kabir Saheb
Spirituality
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the meaning of love is not that our thoughts match. Rather, love means that I am eager and concerned for your well-being. A relationship based on thoughts cannot be taken very far. Love is something else entirely. However, to know what is good for another, you must first know what 'good' (हित) is. And if you know what 'good' is, you will first do good for yourself. Love does not mean that we are both exactly the same. He gives an example of a husband and wife wearing identical t-shirts and jeans, stating this is not love, but akin to making a copy of a folder. Love is something else. He states, "I know myself, therefore I know you too. I am aware of my own sorrow, my own pain, my own restlessness and longing, that's why I also know about your sting, your thorn." He continues, "I have wandered, I have yearned, I have cried, that's why I understand your yearning too. Because I have endured a lot of pain, that's why I know the pain of every suffering person." All sorrows are fundamentally one. Therefore, you cannot be a stranger to me. Just as I am removing my own sorrow, I will remove yours too. He points out that the word 'thought' did not appear in this entire discourse. He uses an analogy: if you tell a friend that they can only be your friend if they get the same haircut as you, that would be foolish. Just as friendship isn't based on hairstyles, love isn't based on thoughts. Thoughts are like the hair on the head. Love is a deep and spiritual matter. It is not a secret or a mystery. Many people use the excuse that even great philosophers couldn't understand love, so who are they to talk about it. He concludes that love is a very simple matter. Even if philosophers didn't understand it, the saints know what love is, quoting Kabir Saheb: "The path on which the master is found, that is called love."