From Sex to Superconsciousness

Talks given from 01/8/68 to 30/10/68 Original in Hindi

CHAPTER

Sex, the genesis of love

28 August 1968 pm in Gowalior Tank Maidan

Question 1WHAT IS LOVE?To feel it is easy, to define love is difficult indeed. If you ask a fish what the sea is like, the fish willsay, ”This is the sea. The sea is all around. And that’s that.” But if you insist – ”Please define thesea” – then the problem becomes very difficult indeed.The finest and the most beautiful things in life can be lived, can be known, but they are difficult todefine, difficult to describe.Man’s misery is this: for the last four to five thousand years he has simply talked and talked aboutsomething he should have been living earnestly, about something that must be realized from within – about love. There have been great talks on love, countless love songs have been sung, anddevotional hymns are continuously being chanted in the temples and in the churches – what all isn’tdone in the name of love? – still there is no place for love in man’s life. If we delve deeply intomankind’s languages, we will not find a more untrue word than ”love”.All the religions carry on about love, but the kind of love that is found everywhere, the kind of love thathas enveloped man like some hereditary misfortune has only succeeded in closing all the gates tolove in man’s life. But the masses worship the leaders of the religions as the creators of love. Theyhave falsified love; they have blocked all love’s streams. In this case there is no basic differencebetween East and West, between India and America.2