How does it matter whether you are homosexual or heterosexual? You're still body-identified. The lust for the body is still there. If one has homosexual desires, they are desires. If a man lusts after a woman, that too is a desire. And neither of these desires takes you anywhere. The superior being is the one who stops running after the body.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. My question to you is that as far as sexual desires are concerned, we have learned that, in the case of heterosexual desires, a part of it is biological in nature, and the rest of it is in the mind. In the same light, how do we look upon homosexual desires, which develop within us? And how do we come at ease with these desires in our daily life?
Acharya Prashant: So many things are happening in Prakriti, it's a very eclectic kind of dance. You cannot have each step of that dance correspond to certain value standards. Homosexuality is nothing new. It has been present since the very advent of civilization. We have known it to be present since then. It must have been present even before that.
Just as you don't ask how to make peace with the unseemly and ungainly thing called a nose—such a bizarre thing, a nose randomly jutting out. It's there. It's a fact. You don’t ask how to make peace with it. Similarly, you don’t ask how to make peace with homosexuality. It just exists. There's nothing special about it. It is there, fine.
