In our country, most people marry because that is sometimes the only way of getting some good sex—good and assured sex. Otherwise, the fellow would either have to spend a lot of money or a lot of time, or both, and then still return empty-handed. Isn’t that so?
Now, if… read_more
Questioner: Thank you for meeting with me again, Acharya Ji! I have a question.
Every time I see an attractive woman, I’m gonna feel the impulse to drop everything and look at her.
Men’s headspace is occupied with conquering women. Can I train myself out of it?
But I have… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: सर, आजकल बहुत लोग ये कहते हैं कि सेक्सुअली लिबरेटेड (यौन रूप से मुक्त) होना बहुत ज़रूरी है एक इंसान का। आप इस पर ज़रा प्लीज़ कुछ कहिए।
आचार्य प्रशांत: नहीं, सेक्सुअली लिबरेटेड जैसा कुछ होता नहीं है। बन्धन सेक्स पर नहीं होते, बन्धन मन पर होते हैं। तो … read_more
Acharya Prashant: What if you were never, never trained in womanhood? How would you live? You can’t even think because right now, every bit of you is a trained bit. How do you know that a woman must have long hair? How do you know? That’s how it is! Nine… read_more
Acharya Prashant: You might just say, “Well, no I am not looking for flesh, I am looking for money. I am looking for material success. I am looking to have another factory. I am looking to have a bigger house with better furniture.” You might talk of material things other… read_more
Acharya Prashant: Women like burly guys. Why do they like burly and big and muscular guys? Because they are likely to have a higher level of testosterone. Unless you have testosterone, you cannot build muscles, right? And that is why you cannot build muscles, let's say after 50 or 60.… read_more
Acharya Prashant: The punishment for not having a girlfriend is that you will keep fantasizing about girls. Does that not happen? Who are the ones who always keep salivating? The singles. And you meet someone who is in a relationship, he won't want to look at girls or boys, for… read_more
Acharya Prashant: The question is from Sonali, “I got married after six years of relationship and five years of married life now. Due to contrasting personalities, my husband and I fight a lot. In April, we had a very big conflict and the police got involved. Now we are living… read_more
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… read_more
Questioner: “Acharya Ji, my whole life, I treated sex as fun due to my early age experience. I would treat it as fun-just to relax my body. But now, at my mature age, I feel that it’s a responsibility to have a son or a daughter for humanity, to strengthen… read_more
Acharya Prashant: You are in front of food and you see how your body wants to lunge towards food. And do you know why the body wants to lunge towards food? Especially, let’s say, sweetmeats or high-calorie items? Why? – Because evolution taught it to, because the survival of the… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, सेक्स (संभोग) की सामाजिक अस्वीकृति को लेकर ग्लानि का अनुभव होता है। कृपया मार्गदर्शन प्रदान करें।
आचार्य प्रशांत: अगर तुमको लाज ही आती है, शर्म ही आती है, तुममें अपराध भाव ही उठता है, तो अपराध भाव तुममें उठना चाहिए तब, जब तुम किसी का इस्तेमाल देह… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: इंटरनेट से एक बहुत लम्बे समय तक मेरा कोई विशेष लगाव नहीं था। यूट्यूब भी मैंने तभी देखना शुरू किया जब आपको सुनने की आदत लगी है आपके कारण ही मैंने इंटरनेट पर ज़्यादा समय बिताना शुरू किया, पर अब ये हो गया है कि इंटरनेट पर मैं आता… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: मेरे पति एक ऐड इंडस्ट्री (विज्ञापन उद्योग) में काम करते हैं। तो उनका पूरा समय जवान और सुन्दर महिलाओं के साथ बीतता है। जिसके वजह से मैं बहुत स्ट्रेस (तनाव) में रहती हूँ, पजेसिव (अधिकारात्मक) हो जाती हूँ, इनसिक्योर (असुरक्षित) हो जाती हूँ। तो मैं सारे हथकंडे अपना चुकी… read_more
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… read_more
Man is the only animal that is always sexually active. Why? Because man is the only animal who is always ambitious. Because you are constantly a seeker, because you are constantly feeling that hollow, because you are constantly feeling inferior, so you are always seeking something from the world. Always.… read_more
You are lonely, so you go and tie a knot with someone who is as lonely as you are. Then there are mutual expectations, which obviously cannot be fulfilled because neither of you are capable of fulfilling them.
In a series of failed expectations, in a series of failed relationships,… read_more
The fellow who watches child porn, is he really very different from a rapist? He is probably a bit cleverer but not really different. He adopts a relatively safer route. He says “I will please myself by watching the heinous act on the screen. I will be careful not to… read_more
“You give me pleasure, I give you pleasure. And to ensure an uninterrupted and secured supply of physical pleasure, you remain physically committed to me, and I remain physically committed to you. What do I want from you? Pleasure, physical pleasure. And we are committed to each other. What does… read_more
In your mind, you have a throne; in your mind, you have a hierarchy, and that hierarchy should be right and clear. As a young person, if sex comes to occupy a very high position in your mental hierarchy, then you will have problems. That does not mean that you… read_more
“I have to eat to satisfy my body, so why can’t I use contraception and have sex with a woman and not procreate?”
This is such a bad analogy. They say sex is like food, both are physical needs. No sir, please! Sex is not like food. No, no, no.… read_more
Acharya Prashant: The fundamental energy of sex is man himself, mind himself. There is the source, the core, then there is the ‘I’ tendency and then there are the various forms that the ‘I’ tendency takes. Whatever be the form that the ‘I’ tendency takes, the form is utilized for… read_more
One may say, “I keep feeling lonely, let me get married”; or one may say, “Let me change cities and move to another place where my community or my friends live”; or one may just say, “Let me switch on the television or visit the shopping mall.” One behaves as… read_more
“When there are so many things calling, demanding your attention, you give complete attention to the thought of sex. What happens, why are your minds so occupied with it? Because that is the way of ultimate escape, is it not? It is a way of complete self- forgetfulness. For the … read_more
Question: Acharya Ji, do you sex as obstacle or a useful tool in Liberation?
Acharya Prashant Ji: Sex is for the body, sex is not for you. Sex is neither helpful towards Liberation, not is it a distraction.
There is a fire burning on the kitchen of the neighbour, there… read_more
Every animal in the universe has only its designated period of mating; some mate in the winter, some mate in the summer, some mate only in the rainy season. Dogs mate only in their designated months. Man is the only creature that fucks the entire year-round. That is the quality… read_more
Questioner (Q) Pranam, Acharya Ji.
Acharya Prashant (AP): Have you fulfilled my condition, first of all?
Q: Yes, Yes, I went to one nightclub. I video-called Anmol Sir from there. One Saturday I went.
AP: What did you do there?
Q: I was just sitting, and had one orange juice,… read_more
You must know what the place of security and money and sex is in your life. If you don’t know their right places, then for the purpose of sex you will give somebody a high position in your life, and then you will suffer. Persons are essentially harmless; harmful is… read_more
Why do you want commitment? Because not only do you want to have sex, you want an uninterrupted and guaranteed supply of sex; that is what you call as commitment.
“Not only should you be with me for one night; assure me that I will find you on the bed… read_more
Questioner: In our times, the matter of sexual orientation has been subject to a lot of debate and controversies. Recently, I saw a YouTube video in which the host is asking children in the age group of fifteen to seventeen years about their sexuality, and they are saying that they… read_more
Sex is beautiful only if you can see the divine in the other. Sex is beautiful only if the body is not just body but a temple, a temple at the center of which God himself sits.
Don’t try to have sex with someone you cannot see as a god… read_more
For an animal, sex is just sex—a physical thing. It is not a route to something else. Man is the only one who does not know how much sex he wants. For an animal, sex is the thing and the end of the thing. For man, sex is not merely… read_more
Questioner: We treat sex as fun, as food, and nothing more than that. Is that why sex converts into lust?
Acharya Prashant: No, wrong. We do not treat sex just as fun and as food. Your longing for sex is far more intense, far more aggressive, far more meaningful, rather… read_more
Sex is nothing but a killer of your precious time. You think it is a means of pleasure; it is rather a killer of your precious time.
If you could honestly calculate how much of your life has gone towards sex and sex-related activities, you would be horrified; you would… read_more
Questioner (Q): My question is about relationships. As a boy I might get attracted towards a girl, but eventually that girl may become a close friend of mine. How can I know whether the feeling I have for the other is true love or just physical desire, like infatuation?
Acharya … read_more
A lot of corporate networking is nothing but gossiping. In fact, people feel comfortable with each other only when they can share trivia with each other, which is nothing but gossiping.
You say, “Now I am intimate with that person.” How? Why? “Because, you see, now I can engage in… read_more
Questioner: Is engaging sexually with the man or woman somehow different than engaging with porn or can both these engagements be of the same quality of pure lust?
Acharya Prashant: In an absolute sense, it doesn’t matter what makes you excited. It could be the body of a woman, physically… read_more
