(22nov06) Love is not pleasure

Love Is Not Pleasure

Without the understanding of pleasure you will never be able to understand love.
Love is not pleasure. Love is something entirely different. And to understand
pleasure, as I said, you have to learn about it. Now for most of us, for every human
being, sex is a problem. Why? Listen to this very carefully. Because you are not
able to solve it, you run away from it. The sannyasi runs away from it by taking a
vow of celibacy, by denying. Please see what happens to such a mind. By denying
something which is a part of your whole structure - the glands and so on - by
suppressing it, you have made yourself arid, and there is a constant battle going on
within yourself.

As we were saying, we have only two ways of meeting any problem, apparently: either
suppressing it or running away from it. Suppressing it is really the same thing as
running away from it. And we have a whole network of escapes - very intricate,
intellectual, emotional - and ordinary everyday activity. There are various forms of
escapes into which we will not go for the moment. But we have this problem. The
sannyasi escapes from it in one way, but he has not resolved it; he has suppressed
it by taking a vow, and the whole problem is boiling in him. He may put on the
outward robe of simplicity, but this becomes an extraordinary issue for him too, as
it is for the man who lives an ordinary life. How do you solve that problem?

The Book of Life - November 22
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