Celibacy and Masturbation || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Can you always talk about so big people like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna

00:09Paramahamsa ji, Shankaracharya Buddha.

00:12Now one thing which always tingles me like you always talk about like I like I'm really

00:18in love with all like all the stuff which you say but the thing about here is like when

00:22I was exploring these things when I was exploring these things I like I was kind of high like

00:27now I know this now like now I know about this now that now that and when I came to

00:31Upanishads when I came to Advaita that like that was the point when the high was over

00:36like now there's nothing to know like as you said after the Upanishads when you know the

00:40stuff about Upanishad there's actually nothing to know and Upanishads also say that thing

00:45and like when I know all like all the stuff at that point I was a celibate like like not

00:49celibate sorry I think that's the wrong word but I was falling celibacy I was a brahmacharya

00:53as you said like the one who is in love with Brahm who don't have to do anything with the

00:56body or with the or with the you know and about the sexual stuff but he's in love with

01:01Brahm that's why he's not able to get the time and at that time I used to thought like

01:05I'm that person but now as the stuff is over and and you know I have read this thing and

01:11I and if I watch any of your videos I get the same message stay unattached and Advaita

01:16is true and stuff like that I get the same message either in this way or that way and

01:20this you know makes me fall again into the you know the stuff about the masturbation

01:25thing and this things give me so much clarity that I'm not I'm like I don't have mumukshu

01:31I just have a ruchi I like I just have an interest okay this is a stuff and you know

01:35as Acharya ji says mukti is a great thing to get so why not get it if I can get money

01:40I can get cars I can get Ferrari I should also have mukti so that's my interest that's

01:44my ruchi I'm not able to get the mumukshu and like that like like we say like the Buddha

01:49said I am sitting over here if I don't get that like the stuff which I'm finding I'll

01:54die over here sitting here I I'm not getting that stuff and for that I'm seeking your guidance

01:59how to follow celibacy again is the meditation the right thing to do right now is it the

02:04right thing to become celibate again like to follow celibacy again what is the question

02:12what are you saying and I you when I started watching your videos I became a brahmachari

02:18and I watch your videos time at answer my questions what do you mean by brahmachari

02:25what did you become okay okay so the first video of which of I like I watch your first

02:32video which was about Lord Krishna and from there I started you became a brahmachari what

02:37did you mean by that what were you doing or not doing I was focused on the stuff the mukti

02:45moksha and truth but I and I was not masturbating you're not masturbating okay then and after

02:53I got bored watching your videos I started masturbating like this is the simplest way

03:05I can put it out like I'm like I'm not talking about a day like I if I watched your videos

03:16in the morning and in the evening I masturbate not like that like for a long period of time

03:21like for several months you can say even yeah several months are you know appropriate I

03:25watched your videos from let's say January to October I also read Upanishads I also read

03:31I did a lot of stuff but I didn't meditate but I didn't meditate okay but I did everything else

03:36like as you said the gyan yog and I like I did many things like I not did but I listened many

03:43things from you as well as from the other people who teach Advaita particularly and after that it

03:49was over now I started masturbating I had time so I masturbated so now I'm like what comes to my

03:55mind is Karthik you didn't meditate maybe that's the fault you didn't have that thing like you

04:00didn't meditate maybe that's the fault so now start meditating and again like is it the right

04:06thing to do again because I'm not able to you know it was my interest I was just not I was

04:11not watching web series I was watching your videos so in the duration you are watching the videos

04:19you didn't masturbate then you got bored after a few months and then you started masturbating and

04:26now you are saying that you want to start with meditation methods is that the position that is

04:33the position okay I mean why is it such a big deal first of all why are we talking about it

04:40because people say that one should not and I'm also feeling like when I do met like Osho said

04:50whatever you're doing do it don't you're like you don't need to like these are stuff which comes in

04:55my mind when I'm like you you you drop all these big names you tell me on your own why are we

05:01talking about this thing right now there are so many things to talk of why are you talking of

05:05masturbation because I think that there are better things to do which I'm not doing like the stuff

05:12you said like as you said that these are the cheap thrills you need to go to the biggest thrill the

05:17biggest level of truth where you can get biggest level of truth then the question has to be the

05:24absence of the big right when the the big thing is not there so you say you are going for cheap

05:33thrills right and you are talking so much of the cheap thrills why are you not talking of the

05:41absence of the big thing maybe because you say that it can't be attained like you can't do

05:49anything to attain it you cannot do anything to attain it as you say oh the big thing is not the

05:56big thing is not about attaining the big thing the big thing is about fighting the stuff that

06:02keeps you away from the big that fight is a very real thing hmm and one needs to take that up no

06:11but if I can't get it why should I fight as if you're saying that it can't be attained, it can't be experienced, it can't be done

06:19that's called love that's called love you cannot ever fully completely have it but it's still worth

06:30the fight and when you plunge yourself into the fight then you do not care about these small

06:38things mark my words I'm not saying these small things will altogether stop what I'm saying is

06:46that you will not care so much about them that you start raising them as the most important thing in

06:52your life when you are in a discussion like this to me it's as good as asking sir I pick my nose

07:04once too often what do I do about it or my hair has a lot of dandruff what do I do about it you

07:14pick your nose many times a day why should I care hmm there is another organ dangling in your body

07:23you play with it two times a day why do I care what's the big deal the thing is when you are

07:34in the right endeavor then such things stop mattering to you and I said stop mattering I

07:42didn't say such things stop they will continue because you have a chimpanzee's body and we very

07:50well know that monkeys do masturbate there are many species who do that so that's there in your

07:57biological self and it will take quite a while before you are freed of your biological self till

08:08that time you will continue to behave like the monkey and masturbating is a part of being the

08:16monkey so you will stop caring and when you stop caring you often find that you also stop caring

08:31to do it when you stop caring for masturbation as if it's such a huge thing then often it happens

08:43that you also stop caring to masturbate because it's not a big deal when it's not big deal then

08:51it stops being very enchanting why do you go towards that activity of masturbation because

08:59there is certain attraction or charm in it right that same charm is making you raise this question

09:08don't you see this question is in sense coming from the same point your masturbation comes when

09:18you masturbate on your bed or wherever you think masturbation is important therefore you masturbate

09:24right right now again you think masturbation is very important that's why you're asking this

09:29question you have to take up the big fight in such a complete way that you stop thinking that

09:38masturbation is important when it is no more important then often you find that it is no

09:45more important to even do it still a bit of it might remain and then you shouldn't care much

09:54about it but please do not use my words as license to indulge in sexual excesses right give yourself

10:07up to the right thing and you will forget all about these cheap titillations and if some part

10:13of that still remains do not worry much about it what can you do you are a monkey the monkey has a

10:22penis you are born with it huh are you getting it remember how much importance can one give to

10:34picking his nose yes yes one last question maybe you can answer this together like two last

10:52questions maybe you can answer these together I hope that I am audible the first question is as

10:58you said it's about love you are not in love that's why you are doing like you're asking

11:02about masturbation not about the truth that's why you even need to meditate to you know get to the

11:07truth if you are in love that then that love is even enough that's what you say so if someone

11:12doesn't have love then what can you do like as you said like from whatever we talked like I'm

11:19thinking maybe I don't have love so now what should I do and the second question is as like

11:24I'm not like as you talk about big personalities like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Swami Vivekananda

11:29don't drop names yes talk about yourself as you take no no like the question is slightly related

11:36to them that's why I'm saying as you talk about so big personalities so my question is that that

11:42those big personalities suggested some methods like one of them says to do the bhajan to take

11:48God's name and one of them prescribed like the one of like one of them even you know open up the

11:55whole stuff about yoga, bhakti yoga, karma yoga, gyan yoga and this and that everything so and they

12:00all and they also prescribed many methods like do this do this I'm talking about someone and I'm

12:07pretty sure that you can know like you know whom I'm talking about so why don't you talk

12:13about those things which they say like as they say chant God's name or they say do meditation

12:18like someone said I'm taking I'm not taking the name and how can I fall in love if I like if I'm

12:25not as you say like if because I'm talking about masturbation that's why I don't have love I mean

12:30like masturbation is more important what again is the question what should I what's what should

12:37someone do if he doesn't have love first thing keep it short love is lost in the vast spread

12:50of trivia so keep it short what can someone do if he doesn't have love suffer that's a good

13:00thing to begin with go to people who know love and in burn in jealousy see what you are missing

13:14out on sounds ridiculous this answer huh a spiritual teacher is advocating jealousy yes I am

13:28so what I'm saying is like that sounds good to me because even the so like nowadays the famous

13:40spiritual masters also say that do the satsang be with the people whom you want to be like and the

13:45traits will get transferred no the traits don't get transferred something within you awakens it

13:55is within you it does not come to you via transfer love is there in me obviously it is there but it

14:02is hidden beneath a pile of maybe porn magazines or something there are you know modern things

14:11nowadays people don't use magazines and the last question why don't you talk about the other things

14:17which great personality said like chanting was there meditating like I'm like I can like my like

14:24if I talk about my mom she doesn't take as much name as you know maybe like say let's take a random

14:30God she doesn't take his name or all these great names you're talking of did they consult each

14:40other before they said what they did okay but Swami wait okay but one of them consulted their

14:52Guru and you know he prescribed to do that or this not consulting someone is one thing learning

14:58some work from someone is one thing but to take the same path as someone else did is a totally

15:07different thing no what exactly do you want me to do you want me to tell you the same things that

15:16other people have said before me I want you to tell something because you are saying the

15:22main thing that you are saying the problem is because of this and we have to leave this but

15:27what should I should I do what should I do like after watching each and every video of yours like

15:31I I also have some of your courses and even after watching the course is very attentively very

15:36attentively even with a diary and a pen I write all the things which is there after that still

15:40this question comes okay so now what should I do what should I do you are in a jungle

15:49you are stuck and you have blindfolds on and you are stumbling from here to there even the jackals

16:07are laughing at you nobody even wants to kill you because they are having such a good time just

16:14looking at you imagine a lion giving out a huge guffaw and then someone comes and releases your

16:28blindfold and then you're asking what should I do what should I do what should I do now there is the

16:34Sun and now there is the light here in your eyes you still require someone to tell you what to do

16:41that's what Niti Niti is it removes the blindfolds and thereafter it's an insult if you still need

16:53to be told what to do basically I should I like I can do anything if I that's what freedom is all

17:01about not that you can do anything freedom is about now being able to do the right thing because

17:07you can now see Vedanta does not impose itself upon you it leaves you free it does not even ask

17:17you to carry Vedanta with yourself Vedanta says be liberated and forget everything including Vedanta

17:26be liberated that's all but you're asking what will I do after liberation what will I do after

17:35I gain eyesight you decide what you will do why should somebody interfere Vedanta is height of

17:43liberalism you decide but you like to be told you like to be handheld some heavenly teacher should

18:02come and show you the way you see you should dance like this you shave your head and start

18:06dancing now you are happy I have been given something to do somebody comes and says you

18:13give up your clothes and walk around like the crow crowing your way into enlightenment and

18:30now you are happy I have been told something to do Vedanta is for real people who do not like to

18:40be told what to do Vedanta is for strong people to use a sexist phrase Vedanta is for real men

18:54and all the other so-called spiritual thrills are for boys Vedanta is only for the men now I'll be

19:11angering a lot of my fellow ladies so advance apologies when I say men I refer to Purush

19:23pure consciousness and that pure consciousness is potentially there in women as well so when I say

19:34Vedanta is for men I have actually said Vedanta is for real men and real women I cringe why do I

19:44have to explain every time it's as if I'm apologizing you cannot understand my vocabulary and I have to

19:54go on offering an explanation every time so this is the last time after this I won't

20:11thank you so much thank you so much

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