Fundamentals of lust The most talked about, thought about and written about subject is sex. The most misunderstood, misinterpreted and confusing subject is also sex! We either try to avoid the subject, or we try to indulge in it. Sex is deeply buried in our unconscious minds. Right from the start, we find no one to enlighten us on the truth about sex. Sex, more than any other subject, needs to be illumined with the light of consciousness! Our condition right now is like that of a man walking in a forest on a pitch-dark night. Somewhere there is a big pit that has been dug and kept. The man who tries to avoid the subject is in total unawareness; he doesnt even know where the pit lies then how can he avoid it? The man who indulges in the subject is aware of the pit, but cant see any other way than to jump straight into it.

Can either of these be the solution? What to do? One should know where the pit lies, and then take the right steps to move around it. The topic of sex is always swept under the carpet. It is a taboo topic. Parents do not come out and discuss it with children. First of all, the parents themselves dont know the underlying facts of the subject! On any subject, you need to ask an authority, otherwise you will miss the right understanding and when you miss the right understanding, you mis-understand. A small story: A lady received a letter from her son's schoolteacher. The teacher had written that the boy was unable to see the board clearly and therefore made mistakes while writing. The lady promptly took her son to the eye doctor.

The doctor examined the boy and wrote out the prescription. It read, hair cut! We laugh at this, but I tell you: in your lives, if you go to the right person in the first go, you will get the right solution; or else you will go around in circles following useless patterns advocated by so-called authorities and you will waste your life. Still worse, you will be advocating these patterns to future generations also. This is how convention sets in. When you allow convention to set in, it becomes a Herculean task to break free from it because convention becomes the truth over the years. When the Master appears, his first job becomes to undo all that has been done to you. Only then can he start penetrating you! Only then he can start showing you what you really are.