Acharya Prashant: And there is another reason why kids appear so fascinating to us: it’s the hormones. It’s not only the human kid; the babies of even animals appear so cute. That’s a ploy of Prakṛti (physical nature). Babies have to appear cute; otherwise they are so defenseless that they would be smashed. Babies must appear cute. That does not mean that babies have something extraordinary in them. It’s just that you are conditioned to find any baby cute.
The baby of a pig is cute. The baby of a monkey is cute. Even little snakes you don’t feel like killing. If you come across a fully grown cobra, then in fear or in self-defense or in just madness you may want to kill it. But if you come across a little snakelet just emerging from the egg, you may even put it on your palm and say, “See, how nice, how cute!” But you found a baby. Prakṛti does it so that the snake species may survive.
But this is something that we do not understand—and regrettably, I say, that most women do not understand. They have such a fascination for babies that for the sake of babies, they often destroy all their lives. I am not saying that men do not have that fascination; many men also have that fascination, literally.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a man or a woman; it’s your responsibility to understand where that fascination is coming from—biological, sexual. Obviously, if you want to have kids, then sex becomes legitimized. Not only legitimized, sex then becomes venerable. So many strands of thought, so many religious schools have emphasized that the only rightful purpose of sex is procreation. So, if you want procreation, then sex is okay. Obviously, you cannot just stand up for yourself and say you are horny, so you want to have sex. If you say, “I am horny and I want to fuck,” then you are a bitch. But if you say, “I want to become a mother,” then sex is so respectable, is it not?
