Religion and Sexuality || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Why is religion obsessed with sex? || Acharya Prashant Workshop (2023)

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00:00Social morality in some way has become conflated with religiosity.

00:05And what you call as social morality has so much to do with sex.

00:09Everything to do with sex.

00:11It is as if sexuality becomes the touchstone of morality.

00:17So it becomes a very probable kind of thing for a religious person

00:23to start thinking of sexuality as very important.

00:26And then it starts hovering in your mind.

00:29What does true spirituality have to say about sex?

00:33The answer might surprise you.

00:35It has not much to say about sex.

00:37It is popular culture and morality etc.

00:40that wax eloquent on sex.

00:42Sex, sex, sex. He's a good man.

00:43Why? Because he doesn't have sex.

00:45Sex has to become something small.

00:48Something not very important.

00:50Not a great monster that you are fighting all the time.

00:53Just as you do not remember what you took for breakfast yesterday.

00:56Sex is something you do not even, you should not even remember.