Having sex to further the world? || Acharya Prashant (2017)

Acharya Prashant: The next question says, “Sex is a problem, no doubt. When we think that it’s a physical, biological demand, then it’s lust. But is it not necessary to expand the world? Is it not a natural gift to the human species to expand?”

You are saying that sex is a problem when we think that it is a physical, biological demand. It is not a matter of what you think of sex, it is the matter of whether you think of sex. Is sex firstly not a thought for you? Or, is it something of the heart? Or, is it something natural? You are saying that sex is a problem only when we think that it is a physical, biological demand. What else is it for the majority of human beings?

Man lives in demands only. If one’s sex is not a physical, biological demand, what else is it? If it is not a physical, biological demand, then it will become a social demand, then it will become a demand of organized religion. It is nevertheless a demand, it is nevertheless an extraction, the way we have it.

You are saying, “Is it not necessary to expand the world?” No, it is not necessary to expand the world. And even if it is, you have not been made responsible to expand the world. Did you determine how the world would be when you were born? What makes you think that you have been given a responsibility to expand or contract the world? And when I say 'Expand or contract', again please see that you are being selective in just talking of expansion. Why not contraction?

In order to hide one's ignorance, in order to give a more respectable and acceptable name to one's basic tendencies, one starts talking of the simple and straightforward things in a convoluted and deceptive way. Man starts saying that he is not having sex to enjoy himself; instead, he is having sex to fulfill his great duty of procreation.