Prostitution || Acharya Prashant
Full video: Prostitution || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)
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00:00Prostitution is a 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?
00:15How is it very different from prostitution?
00:16Please tell me.
00:17The boy comes to look at the girl and all he is doing is measuring up her body.
00:23How is that not prostitution?
00:25Tell me.
00:26Same from the woman's side.
00:28If the woman is just measuring up the man's body or the man's bank balance,
00:32how is that not prostitution?
00:34What is prostitution then?
00:35To look at a living being as merely a body.
00:40That is prostitution.
00:41What is the body?
00:42The body is the seat of consciousness and 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.