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Emotions vs logic: Inner war in Attachment || Acharya Prashant (2023)
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Attachment
Importance
Reality vs. Belief
Relationships
Truth
Logic vs. Emotion
Dhritarashtra
Bhagavad Gita
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a question about the internal conflict between emotion and logic regarding attachment to important people. He explains that the issue is not attachment itself, but the basis on which importance is accorded. Using an analogy, he describes a child who consistently shows excellent report cards, leading one to give the child great importance. However, if it is later discovered that the final report card is terrible and the previous ones were forged, the importance given to the child vanishes. The clash between emotion and logic is resolved once the facts are known. He applies this analogy to relationships, stating that the real problem is not attachment but the flawed assessment of a person's importance. We often accord importance based on belief and fancy, not on the factual reality of the person. The conflict arises because we are attached to something unworthy. The speaker emphasizes that worth must be assessed through facts. He points to Dhritarashtra's attachment to Duryodhana as an example of losing sight of the facts about a person. The urge for a relationship can be so strong that we refuse to look at the reality, knowing that certain questions would spoil the relationship because it is founded on a weak basis. The solution, he suggests, is to assess the importance of the person one is attached to. One must ask if that person brings truth, liberation, and fearlessness into one's life. If they do, then they are truly important, and attachment to such a person is not a problem. In fact, attachment to the right person, like the author of the Gita, can dissolve all other attachments. The fundamental issue is not attachment, but the accord of importance based on forged documents or beliefs rather than on the person's real worth.