Acharya Prashant: If material attracts you, sooner than later, women too would be a dominant factor in your life. And if you are chained to women, then sooner than later you will have to go after material also. That is why people start earning more aggressively and more helplessly after marriage. Because once the material in the form of women enters your life, it calls for more material. In either case, for you, the woman was just material that you were bringing home for consumption. Now that the tendency has started working, you will consume material in all ways, in the form of flesh and also in the form of other things.
So, donтАЩt you see what happens? The level of consumption that you will find in wedded people will be more than consumption you will find amongst those who are not. And also the patterns of the consumption will be different. Are you getting it? Even to consume, you require more consumption. If you are single, you can probably sleep on the floor. But if you want to consume a woman, you will also have to consume a good bed. So now you have brought the woman home, go get a good bed also! Otherwise why have you firstly brought the woman home? It was not for love firstly, right? She is in your life because you want to consume her.
If the computer is there, you better get the UPS as well. If the car is there, you better get the garage as well. So have you married, now get a 3bhk flat! The car is there, now buy the garage. Where else will you park the car or the cow? Ask yourself, would you be equally anxious to buy a flat, if you didnтАЩt have that flesh in your life?
Consumption promotes further consumption. So, if you are already addicted to one form of consumption, know that many other forms of consumption are just waiting to leap into your life. You cannot avoid them. If today you are buying pretty sandals for your beloved, for sure tomorrow you would be buying milk bottles for the infant. Consumption begets more consumption! One kind of consumption leads to another kind of consumption. Material is material and all flesh is material.
