Reality of Most Marriages || Acharya Prashant

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00:00If our marriages are based on sex alone, then they are very beastly affairs, are they not?

00:05And we claim to be civilized people. If you tell someone, you know,

00:07marriage is based on sex alone, they'll say, no, no, it's about companionship in the old age.

00:11Come on, get real. Come on, come on. No, no, no. I'm just friends with my wife.

00:15It's not about sex at all. Why must your partner be of the opposite sex?

00:18If your marriage is not about sex, then sir, why did you look for a woman?

00:22The very fundamental criteria is that you're looking for someone of the other sex.

00:26Then how is your marriage not about sex? Go and marry a man.

00:29But if someone marries a man, then you make fun of him.

00:31Even the law knows that sex is everything in a marriage.

00:34If your marriages are all about sex, then your marriages are just an expression of your

00:38beastly origins. And beasts we are by origin. Yes, we are.

00:42But why stay a beast? Why not sublimate?

00:46If you must have a person in your life, why can't that person be an agent for upliftment?