Acharya Prashant: The whole issue is because you have left the jungle and yet not reached where you set out to reach; you are stuck in between.
Man is in a very precarious position. Animals are well settled; the free ones, the Buddhas are also well settled. Man is unsettled. Animals are not restless; they are well-settled in the jungle. The liberated ones, the sages and the fakirs and the saints and the gurus, they are also well settled. But the world’s population, man in general, is highly unsettled and restless. He is neither in the jungle nor in the place he left the jungle for; he is in the city.
Questioner: There is one very interesting thing that happens: they say that producing babies is natural and you must do that. But, at the same time, they use all kinds of artificial means to produce.
Acharya Prashant: Producing babies is natural, but then it is not natural to produce babies only with your wife. In the jungle that does not happen. If you say that it is natural to have babies, then it is not natural to have babies only with one woman. Nature does not say, “Have babies only with one woman or one man.” If you want to quote nature, then go ahead and have babies with everyone you can find.
You cannot selectively quote Prakriti and what is happening in the jungle. Either you become totally prakritik and then you will have to go back to the jungle, or you say the jungle is now behind us and our center is now not the body, not Prakriti, not the jungle; our center is illumination, and from there we must operate.
