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 than flesh but all material is necessarily and organically linked to flesh. A material lover would take very little time to turn into a flesh lover. And if you are a flesh lover, in the peak of your youth, then as your youth subsides, you will find that the charm for flesh is making way for the addiction to material.
Those who want decorated bodies when they are young are mostly the ones who are crazy about decorated houses, once they reach forty or fifty. Both of these wants are one. When you are twenty, you want to touch and feel somebody’s body. When you are fifty, then you want to touch and feel an expensive bed, painted walls, large balance sheets, and cars with expensive leather seats.
What do you think, is the tendency different when you are caressing the silken body of your beloved and when you are feeling the leather seats of your new car, do you know how sensual is the experience of entering a new car with new leather seats? The entire cabin is full of the scent of the leather. Have you ever done that? Buy a new car with new leather seats and then enter it. The experience in its depths if you bother to enquire is actually erotic. You are smelling leather that is so very similar to sex.
So you do not need to wait for the encounters with women to know whether you are sexually motivated. Just see whether leather seats attract you. Just see whether furniture, garments, carpets, upholstery wall hangings, curtains, and sofa sets attract you! Just see whether you are fascinated by the glitz the decoration and the jazz of a five-star hotel. What do you think that five-star hotel is? It actually represents the glamor of the body! It is decorated like the bride.
