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Overcoming Compulsive Acts through Spirituality. Sadhguru

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    I had a question about sexual appetite. I think for men
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    it's almost like compulsive nature that we have adopted
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    and I am wondering whether or not if one becomes more spiritual
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    their sexual appetite also becomes not so much a compulsive appetite.
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    See....every aspect of your life,
    a human being is capable of making it conscious.
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    That includes sexuality.
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    You can make that also into a conscious process.
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    So once it's conscious process
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    It is no more something
    which decides the course of your life.
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    It is not something that is
    compulsively working within you.
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    It is something that you decide.
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    That's how human life should be. Isn't it?
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    Everything you decide.
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    You are not pushed or pulled into anything .
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    And because it's compulsive,
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    how many varieties of trouble people have gotten into.
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    Isn't it?
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    If it was a conscious process
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    they would know when, where, how, what, isn't it?
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    Just see the kind of amount of
    abuse sexual abuse that is happening.
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    You are not even leaving infants.
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    That's not normal, isn't it?
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    That's not even human, that's not even animal -
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    it's sub animal, isn't it?
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    because it's such a compulsive force.
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    And yes, it's most terrible for the child,
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    but my sympathy is also for the man.
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    How degenerated he must be.
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    How compulsive he must be to do something like that.
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    That a human being can reduce himself to that level.
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    How compulsive, the force it should be
    within himself to do such a thing. Isn't it?
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    So that's simply because no conscious process has been brought forth into life.
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    If only, if people did something consciously at least for 10 minutes a day,
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    you would see all these things
    would go down dramatically.
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    Dramatically!
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    They are not starved of sex,
    it is not because sex is not available for them.
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    It is because it's such a compulsive force,
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    that they have to do something like this, isn't it?
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    And it's becoming a big thing.
    Not just in one place - worldwide.
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    It is becoming such a big thing.
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    It is not that it's not been in the past,
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    It's probably more coming out now than ever before.
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    But it's always been like this.
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    People are clothed in human body but living like absolute animals within themselves.
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    Doing things that even an animal would hesitate to do.
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    Isn't it?
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    Even an animal would hesitate to do certain things
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    that human beings are doing.
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    So, It has to become a conscious process
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    It need not be a drive.
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    It need not be a compulsive drive.
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    It can be a conscious process.
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    Once it's conscious, how much of what
    you need in your life can be decided by you.
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    Whether something is needed or not,
    also can be decided by you. Isn't it?
Title:
Overcoming Compulsive Acts through Spirituality. Sadhguru
Video Language:
English
Duration:
03:59

English subtitles

Revisions

  • Revision 5 Edited
    Svetlana_Mitreva Aug 23, 2020, 9:48 PM