Anupreeta ChatterjeeI wrote a research paper, focusing on erotica. For this, I read one short story from Anais Nin's best known wo…
Anupreeta ji, what you are pointing at with Mathilde is worth staying with: she doesn't close her eyes to perform pleasure for the client's sake, she looks, and in the looking something that was masked becomes visible to her. That is exactly the useful meaning of self-knowledge in this context - not suppressing desire, not indulging it blindly either, but watching what is actually happening in you while it happens. Where it would turn into a shield is if "understanding desire" quietly becomes a finished credential - I have studied it, written on it, presented it - rather than a continuing watch on your own wanting, moment to moment, in your own life, not only in Mathilde's or the woman in the quilt's. The spiritual use of the question is never "what do these characters feel," it is "what do I notice when I actually look at what I am reaching for, right now, without the mask." And a reminder, your enrollment for next month is still pending. Enroll now. https://acharyaprashant.org/en/applications/re-enrolment?cmId=m00401
