Acharya Prashant explains that when a boy and a girl are together, a sexual dimension will always be present. He asserts that there is no benefit in denying this fact, nor is there a need to oppose it. One must remember that despite all sexuality, at the core, one is a consciousness, not the body. While your body may be that of a woman, consciousness seeks liberation from being both a man and a woman. Consciousness dislikes having any identity imposed upon it, whether it's 'woman', 'rich', or 'poor'; it wants liberation from everything. Therefore, one should form friendships with this understanding. This very issue is the central theme of all philosophy: the relationship between consciousness (Purusha) and nature (Prakriti), which can be understood as the body. On one hand, consciousness desires liberation from nature, but on the other, it cannot exist or interact without the body. Consciousness is dependent on the body, and since our consciousness is not yet liberated, it is influenced by the body's internal and external movements. This is the question that all philosophies, especially Indian ones, have deeply pondered. While there are disagreements, they all concur that liberation from nature is necessary to end suffering, and this liberation is achieved only through the medium of nature. This implies that liberation from sexuality is also attained through the medium of sexuality. You cannot expect a relationship with a man to be devoid of a sexual angle; it will be there. The advice is to choose a man who, despite the sexual angle, gradually helps you move towards freedom from sexuality. This is a difficult path, like walking a tightrope, because sexuality can be like a swamp. However, the wise have said that one cannot avoid it but can channelize it. The body, the animal nature within, will compel you to seek the opposite gender, and this seeking will have a hidden or overt sexual intention. It is important to acknowledge this without hypocrisy. When you are compelled to seek a partner, choose one who can help you transcend the limitations of the body and sexuality. For instance, Meera Bai, despite her spiritual advancement, still called Shri Krishna her husband. She could not be free from the 'woman' within her, but she declared that if she must have a husband, he must be like Krishna. Similarly, if a man needs a woman, he should seek one with a certain spiritual standard. The speaker clarifies that we often misunderstand sexuality as just a small part of life, whereas life itself is sexual. The desire to live (jijivisha) is the fundamental lust (kamukta). Everything, from birth to death, is sexual. The solution is not to escape sexuality but to channelize it through right selection and giving the relationship a conscious, disciplined direction.
