Q: Sadhguru, what are your views on homosexuality? is
it karmic? and there'll be a redirection of
the energy or a practice for those who
are struggling with it?
Sadhguru: I think most of the homosexuals of today are a product
of a social situation, rather than if any
kind of physiological or any other inner
need.
Mostly they are a social outcome of
a certain attitude.
If you go by the ways
of the nature, sexuality was implanted in
your body fundamentally for the sake of
reproduction.
We are all here because of
that.
But if there was no pleasure
attached to it, nobody would go for it,
Nobody would go for it.
It is a painful thing to deliver a child.
So, nature decided to attach pleasure to
it, because without pleasure nobody would
go for it.
In spite of a little bit of
pleasure attached to it, so many people
are deciding not to go for it.
they
become smart.
At the very yang age a lot of
people are becoming very smart these
days.
They're willing to.. they're able to
see through.
the limitations of ..
..is not for us.
That's very smart
actually, because they're able to think
beyond their hormones.
Hormone is a
chemical process.
It takes charge of you
from inside.
not from an outside.
It's not
an outside invasion, it's an inside
invasion.
Till you were 12 -13 years of
age everything was just fine with you.
Suddenly, little bit of chemistry and
then you don't know what the hell is
happening with you.
Suddenly the whole
head has become wonky . You can't think
beyond it . it's happened isn't it?
So the
moment hormones hijack your intelligence
then you start acting funny and you act
every, the whole world is revolving
around your sexuality.
There's nothing
else to the world except sexuality.
See
almost any, almost 90 percent of the
artwork ,literature, or any damn thing
that's written or painted or sculpted is
about sex, isn't it? isn't it so?
I don't know,
I may not be right in the percentage, I
think it's about 90 percent.
even if it's
75- I think it's a very distorted vision
of life isn't it? yes? it's a very
distorted vision of life, that one aspect
of the physical takes up
so much of human mind and consciousness,
is a very distorted perception of life.
Now in that, what or whom you want to
have to sex with has become another
great identification.
So, when you talk
about heterosexuality or
homosexuality- you're just asking me with
whom or what I should do?
This thing that
you call as sex..
I don't care.
all I know is , if your body and your
consciousness and your mind is ruled by
the simple hormonal changes, that happen
within you, you have a completely
distorted perception of life.
What is there to correct, what is there
not to correct, if physiologically some
certain needs have changed within a
person, he could be helped, but most of it
is social.
I don't think one thing is
better than the other . You being ruled by
your sexual identification, either hetero
or homo is about the same thing.
You're
ruled by a simple aspect within you,
which was created for a certain purpose,
has become the most dominant factor in
you.
That itself is a distortion of life.
Human beings were given.. see all the
other animals it was fixed for them .only
at certain times they have that
awareness, rest of the time they're not
even aware of their sexuality.
With human
beings nature trusted your intelligence
and believed that your intelligence
will function beyond your hormones, but I
think 90% of the humanity has failed
nature, disappointed the Creator, because
they have not allowed their
intelligence to function beyond
their Hormones.
The hormones are more
dominant than their intelligence.
So ,what
kind of sexual identity you'll take ,it
doesn't matter . You are identified with a
few body parts.
That's bad enough.
Which
body part ,doesn't matter .it's bad enough.
If you must identify with body parts, I
would say the best body part to be
identified with would be brains, not
something else.
So, I am pretty sure everyone knows about section 377 being decriminalized, yeah?
And I think most of the youth, we’d have gone back home, we are very happy about this
and we talk to our parents and people from the… like you know older generation, right?
So when we discuss something like this with our older generation,
they said, “We are not going to debate with you as such,
we are not going to impose our perspectives on you
but this is not accepted in our religion”.
So just want to know your perspective on, you know, the LGBT community or homosexuality
as such with religion Sadhguru: See, probably till now, largely
in the social space, in the media space, in the social media space, everybody is pitching
either for or against.
Can we for some time not pitch for or against and simply look at the issue as it is?
Can we?
Participant: Yes!
Sadhguru: Look at me, I am not a prude, okay?
(Few laugh) Let that be clear (Laughs).
So, when we say sexuality, lets understand this -
it is something nature has put in us because there is something called as perpetuation
of the race or the species otherwise it won’t happen.
Of course we being human beings, having more brains than body, supposed to (Few laugh)
because of that, we kind of eliminated the reproductive part
and just using the pleasure part of it, all right?
This is sexuality right now largely in the world.
But essentially this pleasure also is come into the sexuality process because otherwise…
well, if there was no pleasure to it maybe we wouldn’t be born, you and me.
Our parents would not have gone into it, if there was no pleasure at all attached (Laughter).
Yes or no?
Participant: Yes!
Sadhguru: So, we are here because of that.
So there is no denying it or putting it under the carpet, that’s not the thing.
But somebody has a certain kind of sexual preference,
which has got nothing to do with reproductive process as such.
It is their personal preference, because every individual has the right to
do whatever the hell they want to do with their body,
because it’s their body.
But if it is something harmful, you are going to cut your nose off,
or you are going to cut something else off then maybe we will try to prevent you.
But you are not causing any harm to yourself in that way,
then it’s your business as long as you do something in your private.
Right now the Supreme Court decision is just that,
that what a person does in their private space is nobody’s business.
Government need not enter people’s bedrooms - that is the law, alright (Laughter)?
Now, coming to this religious resistance, there’s nothing religious about this.
We don’t have to discriminate against them, we don’t have to persecute them,
we don’t have to put them in the prison - definitely it’s not necessary.
But at the same time it doesn’t need promotion either.
So, you don’t have to…
When your parents say something, they may refer to their religion because they think
it’s an authority.
You take away the authority, just listen to the words,
If it makes sense, do it.
If it doesn’t make sense, tell them politely, that’s not the way it is with me, alright