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seeking anything beyond survival, it will never be
enough. Even people who are into this process, or
even though this process is active in people in
different levels, without the decorations of emotion
they would not be willing to go through it. Now,
unfortunately, in the Western countries it has
happened this way, if you utter the word
relationship, they simply think it has to be
sex-based. Yes? Nothing else is a relationship.
Some sex-based relationship is the only
relationship. This is unfortunate. This has
happened because your identification with the
body has become so strong. As you get more and
more identified with the body, sex or sexuality
becomes more and more important. As you become
less and less identified with the body, you will see,
the sex recedes.
You see in your own societies, somebody
becomes very intellectually active, he becomes
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identified with his intellectual process. Do you see
the need for sex recedes in that man? Somebody
who is physically identified with his body, in him
the needs are very heavy. It's always so. Where you
are identified, it is through that, that everything
functions in you. So, in any relationship, sex-based
relationship, if you discover one day that actually in
the other person there is no emotion, it is simply
physical, suddenly you feel that you are being used.
Yes? After all it is sex, it is physical. That's all it can
be, but without the decorations of emotion, you will
feel that it's not good enough, it's an abuse.
In sex-based relationships, what is usually
passing off as love is just a mutual benefit scheme.
You give me this, I will give you that. If you don't
give me that, I won't give you this. It's like this - one
day Shankaran Pillai went to the park. Shankaran
Pillai means, it's a common name in India. He went
to the park; there on one of the stone benches,
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in ter ior des ign , furn i ture des ign and
manufacturing, landscape design, handicrafts and
soft furnishings, to designer outfits from
Isha Raiment.
All profits from this venture are used to serve
the rural people of India, through Isha
Foundation's ARR initiative.
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Visitors should contact Isha Yoga Center for
availability and reservation of accommodation well
in advance of arrival to the center, as they are
generally fully booked.
Isha Yoga Center
Velliangiri Foothills, Semmedu (P.O.),
Coimbatore 641 114, INDIA.
Telephone: 091-422-2615345
Email: [email protected]
Isha Foundation, Inc.
191 Anthony Dr.
McMinnville, TN - 37110, USA
Telephone: 866-424-ISHA
Email: [email protected]
Isha Foundation, Lebanon
Harat El Faouka Street,
Broumana EI Matn, Lebanon.
Telephone: 00961-3915-601
Email: [email protected]
For worldwide program information visit
www.ishafoundation.org
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Sexuality and the DivineSexuality and the Divine
Page 21
seeking anything beyond survival, it will never be
enough. Even people who are into this process, or
even though this process is active in people in
different levels, without the decorations of emotion
they would not be willing to go through it. Now,
unfortunately, in the Western countries it has
happened this way, if you utter the word
relationship, they simply think it has to be
sex-based. Yes? Nothing else is a relationship.
Some sex-based relationship is the only
relationship. This is unfortunate. This has
happened because your identification with the
body has become so strong. As you get more and
more identified with the body, sex or sexuality
becomes more and more important. As you become
less and less identified with the body, you will see,
the sex recedes.
You see in your own societies, somebody
becomes very intellectually active, he becomes
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identified with his intellectual process. Do you see
the need for sex recedes in that man? Somebody
who is physically identified with his body, in him
the needs are very heavy. It's always so. Where you
are identified, it is through that, that everything
functions in you. So, in any relationship, sex-based
relationship, if you discover one day that actually in
the other person there is no emotion, it is simply
physical, suddenly you feel that you are being used.
Yes? After all it is sex, it is physical. That's all it can
be, but without the decorations of emotion, you will
feel that it's not good enough, it's an abuse.
In sex-based relationships, what is usually
passing off as love is just a mutual benefit scheme.
You give me this, I will give you that. If you don't
give me that, I won't give you this. It's like this - one
day Shankaran Pillai went to the park. Shankaran
Pillai means, it's a common name in India. He went
to the park; there on one of the stone benches,
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in ter ior des ign , furn i ture des ign and
manufacturing, landscape design, handicrafts and
soft furnishings, to designer outfits from
Isha Raiment.
All profits from this venture are used to serve
the rural people of India, through Isha
Foundation's ARR initiative.
35
Page 43
Visitors should contact Isha Yoga Center for
availability and reservation of accommodation well
in advance of arrival to the center, as they are
generally fully booked.
Isha Yoga Center
Velliangiri Foothills, Semmedu (P.O.),
Coimbatore 641 114, INDIA.
Telephone: 091-422-2615345
Email: [email protected]
Isha Foundation, Inc.
191 Anthony Dr.
McMinnville, TN - 37110, USA
Telephone: 866-424-ISHA
Email: [email protected]
Isha Foundation, Lebanon
Harat El Faouka Street,
Broumana EI Matn, Lebanon.
Telephone: 00961-3915-601
Email: [email protected]
For worldwide program information visit
www.ishafoundation.org
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