What's wrong in dating? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Grandpa says teenagers must not date || Acharya Prashant, at Mithibai College, Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00What are young people supposed to do if not meet each other?

00:02What's the alternative to dating, I ask?

00:04Arranged marriage?

00:05If people don't date, basically what we are saying is,

00:09there would be arranged marriages, right?

00:10And don't we know of the horror of arranged marriages?

00:13I'm not saying love marriages are any less horrible,

00:17but the horror of arranged relationships is special.

00:21Meet.

00:21Meet each other as free individuals, as free men and free women.

00:27Free not only of external pressure, but also internal ego.

00:33Do not meet the other as someone to be exploited.

00:37Do not meet the other as a means of entertainment.

00:41Meet the other as someone who would be helpful to you in your next steps through life.

00:48And meet the other as someone you'd like to be with in a friendly way.