Prostitution || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Prostitution || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

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00:00Prostitution is the thing which is considered a taboo and the people really don't want to talk about it.

00:05We are very embarrassed when it comes to the word prostitution.

00:09But what if the husband and wife look at each other as mere bodies?

00:13Why are you not embarrassed then? How is it very different from prostitution?

00:17Please tell me. The boy comes to look at the girl and all he is doing is measuring up her body.

00:23How is that not prostitution? Tell me.

00:26Same from the woman's side. If the woman is just measuring up the man's body or the man's bank balance, how is that not prostitution?

00:34What is prostitution then? To look at a living being as merely a body. That is prostitution.

00:41What is the body? The body is the seat of consciousness.

00:45And the consciousness is the only thing worth respecting.

00:49When this is how you look at the body, then only the body becomes sacred.

00:54Otherwise, the body is just like anything else. Like shoes.