Money or Love?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: What is the basic need of anyone? Money or Love?

Acharya Prashant (AP): What’s your name?

Listener (L): Vaibhav

AP: Vaibhav, do you know the meaning of your name ‘Vaibhav’? Do you know what Vibhu means? Do you know what Vibhuta means? Vaibhav is very closely related to Vibhu, Vibhuta. Vaibhav means, ‘I have it and I need no more’. Know the meaning of your name. I have it and I need no more. And you are asking what is the most basic need of anyone — Money or love?

Love is not a need. In fact, the one who is still needy cannot love.

Love is not about needing, love is about having so much that you give it.

Love is real Vibhuta, Vaibhav.

“I feel contented within and that contentment shows up in all my relationships. This is love. All my relationships. My relationship with my friends, family, trees, animals, the entire existence. My mind is healthy and that health is present in all my relationships.” — this is love.

The expression of your inner health is love.

Love is not a need. It is an expression. It’s a giving. Love does not ask, it only gives, “I am contented. I am settled. I am secure. I am not a…