The mind is fed up of its daily, boring, routine, fettered and frustrated life. But it has no faith or courage to break away from this life. It is very necessary for it to keep looking towards the future. Some special day must always lie ahead: New Year, Valentine’s, Holi, your birthday, Diwali and so on. This cycle keeps up the illusion that something great is coming.
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Questioner: Sir, I’m a celibate. But people around me think it’s a huge deal. They would rather experience the other end of this extreme which is temptations and urges. They think abstinence is a minority practice. Why this shift in value system? More importantly, how can people be tempted towards something they know nothing about? Coming to my main point, I’m a thirty-three year old celibate. My question is, why is it considered so uncommon when it seems very natural to me?
Acharya Prashant: Numerically, proportionally, it is something that most people do not practise, so they do not take it as common. Because we lead lives that have a lot to do with the body, therefore to most people it appears very natural that life will be spent doing what the body commands to do. So, that’s the only reason people find it uncommon and to some extent they are justified because if you just count the numbers, not too many people will be celibates. So, to that extent, yes.
But what is to be understood is that it is not between this body and the other body, the matter, the real question, is not between this body and that body. Are these two bodies meeting or not? A woman’s body, a man’s body or whatever. It’s not a thing between two bodies, that’s not the principal question. The principal question is between me and my body, it is not between my body and somebody else’s body. The question is, what is the relationship between me and my body? Who am I and what is my body to me for? What is my body to me for?
