Homosexuality vs Hetrosexuality || Acharya Prashant, at Goa University (2022)

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00:00You spoke of not giving a lot of importance to the body because after all we are not the

00:13body and we are consciousness.

00:15What would you say in cases of maybe homosexuality wherein society has laid its own conditions,

00:22the body is giving its own directions and in this case probably the direction of the

00:26body would be my own direction, like would be my own decision.

00:31How do you think?

00:32I am not talking of not giving importance to the body.

00:38What I am saying is know what the body is and that knowledge will tell you how important

00:43the body is, right?

00:45You cannot wish away your neighbor, can you?

00:48And the body is a lifelong neighbor.

00:51We are born wedded to the body.

00:56The body is a lifelong spouse.

01:00You are born with the spouse.

01:03So it's impossible to not to give importance to it.

01:06But you must know exactly how important and in which case, in what fields, in which direction.

01:17If I am sweating on my forehead, it would be not really an act of bravado or wisdom

01:25to say, oh this is not me, so I will not wipe it out.

01:28I would rather pick the towel and say, fine, be done with it and continue with the discussion.

01:35The thing is about giving the body its right place, not letting it dominate your life.

01:44We are not talking of being cruel to the body.

01:48We are not talking of ignoring the body or being oblivious to its natural needs.

01:56You have to clean it, you have to feed it and the human body is a very delicate thing

02:03compared to that of the animals.

02:06It requires a lot of maintenance.

02:07It has to be provided all that medical care.

02:12When it comes to what the society says and all that, on issues like homosexuality, you

02:23see, to whom is the society?

02:27Again, the society is to the body, right?

02:31The one who knows the right place of the body also knows the right place of the society.

02:39And if the society starts talking too much, you say, when I do not listen even to myself,

02:48how will I listen to you?

02:50Who the hell are you to lord over me?

02:55But that does not mean that you quit listening to others and start following your own dictates.

03:10One has to be extremely careful here.

03:14This kind of pseudo-rebellion will not help.

03:20What is the body?

03:21The body is an equipment that always looks at the outside.

03:27The body is looking at this, this, this, this, this, this, this.

03:32So even when you want to rebel, if your body identified, you will rebel against this, this,

03:38this, this, this, this and outside of you is the society.

03:43So you can very well anoint yourself as a great rebel because you are violating the

03:53norms of the society and you can feel very happy.

03:57I am a great rebel.

03:58I am going against the society.

03:59Alright, you are going against the society.

04:02But are you able to go against yourself?

04:06No.

04:07Because that knowledge, that realization, that insight you do not have.

04:14So especially as young people, we love to flout social norms and in the process we became

04:24slaves to ourselves.

04:29I say, I have a tendency to live my life this way.

04:35Even if the society does not allow me, I will not listen to the society.

04:40Why?

04:41Very fine.

04:44But what is worse?

04:46Having a master stand there outside of yourself or having a master sit in here within yourself?

04:58What's worse?

04:59Please tell me.

05:04A fellow with dubious intentions and a gun, where do you want him?

05:13Outside your door or inside your door?

05:17That's what.

05:18Young people love to rebel against the one outside the door.

05:22But if the one outside the door manages to sneak in and starts posturing as an insider

05:33to the house, a family member, then we say, welcome, welcome.

05:40You are me.

05:42I will follow what you say.

05:45I'll have no eyes to see that this that I'm calling as within, this that I'm calling as

05:53myself is actually something alien, foreign, embedded inside my system.

06:02It is not me.

06:07It is the outside masquerading as the inside.

06:12That we do not know.

06:15So a lot of these new age issues, I think, have to be seen in that light.

06:23You know, you talk of freedoms to live your life the way you want to.

06:28My question is, what is this you?

06:33You say, my life, my choice, well said, perfectly agreeable.

06:42But what do you mean by my?

06:46What do you mean by my?

06:49I read somewhere, when it comes to sexual orientations, there was this demand that the

06:57society by way of its education system is imposing heterosexuality on kids.

07:07They said, you see, all the stories that you feed your kids are about a man and a woman.

07:13So the kids are being artificially taught to be heterosexual.

07:19So what you need to do is that, right from the age of five or something, you need to

07:25expose the kids to various alternate forms of sexuality.

07:30You need to tell the kid, you know, you can make out with a girl or a boy or whatever.

07:39I do not know whether this is freedom.

07:43It is for you to think.

07:48When you say my life, my choice, what exactly does that mean?

07:53To choose one has to know, right?

08:01Just after this, obviously we have some refreshments served outside.

08:06There is sipitaka and toka toka.

08:09What would you like to have?

08:14What would you like to have?

08:20But if you are given that choice, you know, the two things are kept in front of you, sipitaka

08:24and toka toka, you would pick up one of them.

08:29Now how would you make the choice?

08:32In absence of knowledge, how does the choice get made?

08:37What others are having, the one that has a more tempting aroma, the one that looks more

08:44like food porn, right?

08:53Now that's how our choices are made in absence of self-knowledge.

08:58And then we say, well, this is my sexual orientation.

09:00How do you know?

09:01Do you know the body?

09:03Do you know what this thing called sex is?

09:06Is it just something physical or does it have a psychological rather spiritual dimension

09:12to it?

09:14Do you know any of these?

09:19On the other side are those who are proudly calling themselves normal because they are

09:26heterosexual.

09:29What is normal?

09:30Even rapists are heterosexuals.

09:33Does that make them normal?

09:39What do you mean by the norm?

09:42Do you have to be healthy or do you have to be normal?

09:49There was COVID.

09:51In a family of eight, seven are infected.

09:55Now do you want to be healthy or normal?

09:59If you are normal, then you would be one of them.

10:01You would be the eighth one.

10:05You understand what norm means?

10:08What is norm?

10:13That which everyone is doing, the state that most people are in is the norm.

10:19Want to be normal?

10:20No.

10:21You want to be healthy.

10:22And then in this age of sickness, health is abnormal.

10:30Is it not?

10:35Just because you are doing something that everybody else does, does not make you some

10:38kind of winner.

10:43Homosexuality, heterosexuality, this, that.

10:52What is sex first of all?

10:55No clarity.

10:58You get to a certain age, you start feeling a certain attraction, it's arising from

11:03the body and the social influences and you are just carried away by the current.

11:11We will talk of the normal kind and the alternate kind later on.

11:17First of all, do we understand the body?

11:20Do we understand who we are?

11:23Do we understand why this force called sex is so compelling?

11:32We just want to raise slogans on this side or that side of the divide.

11:51This was not the answer you wanted.

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