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Love and Detachment || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2022)
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Self-knowledge
Detachment
Self-love
Objectivity
Realism
Bias
Internal Investigation
Mediocrity
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the difficulty of maintaining objectivity when investigating one's own life compared to analyzing external phenomena. He explains that while it is easy to be objective in a laboratory or with technology because there is no personal attachment, internal investigation often becomes a messy affair due to personal biases and the involvement of the subject. He introduces the concept that true detachment is actually a product of self-love. If one truly loves themselves, they will want to understand their internal state neutrally and without prejudice to escape suffering and mediocrity.