Is plunging into sex a method to gain freedom from sex?

Acharya Prashant
12 min readOct 19, 2020

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

Question: Acharya Ji, you have said in a previous session while discussing the attraction towards sex, that one does not need to get entangled even to overcome or suppress. One rather needs to leave sex behind. One should seek that for which one is really eager. All the energy should go in that direction.

One is not rejecting sex, one is just prioritizing correctly. One is saying that the one that has a lower priority must wait because there is something immensely more important that is higher up the priority. That which is higher up the priority is so immense that it would never get completed, never get over. So the one who is waiting for his turn, the one who is lower down the order would just keep waiting.

He would not need to be killed, he would have just been permanently postponed. And she further says that, in the same session, Acharya Ji has said “In the subconscious, there is a lot that terrifies you and you try to escape that fear by not trying to know more about it. When you first enter, you will find ‘that’ which will scare you but if you stay with it courageously you will meet the one that delivers you from that fear.

If a person doesn’t meet ‘that’, which scares him, then how would you meet the one that liberates from the fear? Therefore, on your way meet all your imperfections and impurities and it is only after that you will meet the one that purifies, perfects, and completes you.

So having quoted these two excerpts from a previous session, the question is: In the context of the pull of Maya and the world, here relating to the pull of the sexual energy, does one acknowledge it and transcend it by focusing on the ‘Anant’ or God? Or does one drop the defenses against Maya, go through the worldly and only then arrive at the door of the ‘Anant’?

Acharya Prashant (AP): So, two excerpts have been quoted and apparently the two excerpts are in contradiction. The first one says that you do not need to get entangled, and the second one says that you need to meet all your fears, all your impurities, all your imperfections head-on.

Acharya Prashant