Acharya Prashant: First question reads, “What are your views on sex, love and meditation?”
What exactly do you want to know? I have no views really on any of these. Neither of them is something to be thought about.
L: What is the role of meditation in realization?
AP: None of these has any role to play anything. None of these are means or methods. There is the body and the body breathes. There is the body and the body bleeds. The body asks for food and digests, assimilates. And then there is the mind. The mind is driven by instincts, desires, conceptualizes, fears, analyses, projects, forecasts; that’s what the mind does. And both of these can pretty much remain independent.
When the body asks for food, it is not necessary that the mind needs to have a role in it. When the mind has a role in it, then you overeat. Then you go beyond the body needs and wants. Same is with sex. Why must the mind think about it? Why must anybody have views on it? Must you have views on all the hormones and enzymes that there are? Must you have views on how the ears hear and how the eyes see? Are you trying to hear or trying to see? And if you try that, then both hearing and seeing will be impeded.
But the thing about the mind is that it wants to have views on everything. It is so insecure that it must feel in control and the means that it deploys to feel ‘in control’ is knowledge: I must know. And that knowledge is nothing but opinion, “If I will know, then I will be able to say something about anything. And in saying something about everything, I will convince myself that I know, that I understand”.
