With youth: What is the relation between love and kids?

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

Acharya Prashant (AP): The first question asked in today’s session was, “Why do people have kids?” The second one, which is very funnily related was “What is love?” So my question to you is, “What is the relation between love and kids?”

Listener 1 (L1): Kids are born out of love.

(Laughter)

AP: Mohit, what is the relation between love and kids?

L2: Sir, I don’t find any relation.

AP: You did not find any relation, but the whole world finds the relation. The entire world finds the relation. “A Child is the outcome of our love,” that’s what they say.

What is the relation between love and kids? First of all, get this out of your mind that there is a relation. You know it is very easy to theoretically put this, that there is no relationship. But when you look at the relationship people have with their parents, then you realize that most of us actually think that there is a relation between love and procreation, between love and reproduction. There is no relation at all. Please!

Love is one thing, and having kids, procreation is an entirely physical thing. Entirely physical. We have spoken about…