Sex, Death, Meditation - are these really Contradictory?🔗

Sex, meditation and death: when I chose this title, one of my ashram residents was sitting next to me. I was selecting titles for the discourses to be given in America. When I chose this title, she commented, 'Master, these are totally contradictory words forming a title. How can you talk about them in the same discourse?'

I gave her the explanation as to why they are all combined together. Of course, even after the explanation, when we hear the title we will feel that these are totally contradictory words.

When all three are impure, they are totally opposite to each other, contradictory to each other. When meditation starts happening in our lives, it can purify sex and death and ultimately combine all the three experiences into one. When we reach spiritual life which is the ultimate goal of any being, we will understand things differently. We will see all these three terms in three different planes. First, we will see how in an impure state these terms are contradictory to one another; then, when we add meditation, how they start complementing each other, and finally when meditation ends, how they become one with each other.

First, let us see how these three words and experiences that they connote, contradict each other; then, how they complement each other and finally, how they become one as they meet and merge.