Having sex to further the world?

Acharya Prashant
4 min readAug 9, 2020

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: Sex is a problem, no doubt. When we think that it’s a physical, biological demand, then it’s lust. But is it not necessary to expand the world? Is it not a natural gift to human species to expand?

Acharya Prashant: You are saying that sex is a problem when we think that it is a physical, biological demand. It is not a matter of what you think of sex, it is the matter of whether you think of sex? Is sex firstly not a thought for you? Or, is it something of the heart? Or, is it something natural? You are saying that sex is a problem only when we think that it is a physical, biological demand. What else is it for the majority of human beings?

Man lives in demands only. If one’s sex is not a physical, biological demand, what else is it? If it is not a physical, biological demand, then it will become a social demand, then it will become demand of organized religion. It is nevertheless a demand, it is nevertheless an extraction, the way we have it.

You are saying, “Is it not necessary to expand the world?” No, it is not necessary to expand the world. And even it is, you have not been made responsible to expand the world. Did you determine how the world would be, when you were born? What makes you think that you have been…

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