On one hand, because you don’t understand what this thing called sex is all about, so you can’t resist it. You have no understanding of what this entire process is. You have never bothered to understand what this hormonal business is. So, you come to a particular age and your body becomes mature; there is a chemical action within the body, and you start getting influenced by it. You cannot resist it because there is no understanding. Only out of understanding there is freedom from influence.
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Questioner: What is it about pornography and the various other kinds of expressions of suppression? Why is there so much in our lives that we hide and which is done behind closed doors, hidden from someone? And yet we all know that it is a norm, that everyone engages in all these activities.
Acharya Prashant: It is not only about pornography. There is so much hypocrisy within and around us where we indulge in particular kinds of behaviors, knowing fully well that it is not just us, but most people around who indulge in these kinds of activities and practices, and yet it is forbidden to talk about them.
Two questions arise. First, from where do these things come? How have these diseases become the norm? Understand this.
Every child is taught to speak the truth. Every child is taught to respect others, not to be violent, to be a loving individual, and many other things. And he is told that if you speak the truth, it is virtuous, and if you lie, then there is something wrong with you. The notions of heaven and hell, right and wrong, moral and immoral, are deeply drilled down into us right since childhood. Obviously, the intention is to have goodness in the world.
