It is not sex per se, which can be an impediment in one's growth, but once attachment to one's

own body definitely is an impediment, because if you're attached to the body, if you are

identified with the body, the ways of the body will become the ways of your life.

If you go by the ways of your body, I want you to understand, if you keep your mind aside,

if you keep your emotion aside, your consciousness aside, the body just wants to eat, sleep,

copulate and die.

This is all it's geared for.

This is it's software.

If you want to do something else in your life, it is important, your identification with

the body, receipts and your identification with your larger consciousness becomes well-established.

That is when you will get to do larger things in life, to live life in a more profound way

becomes possible.

Otherwise, as long as you're identified only with your physical body, the very nature

of this is this small little boundary in this limitless cosmos is the consequence of

this is fear.

The consequence of this is insecurity.

The consequence of this is naturally a mental derangement of a certain kind, which will inevitably

happen to people who are very strongly identified with just their body.

It's important to other dimensions of who you are, keeping the body healthy and well is

important, but it is very important to other dimensions of being human, also evolve and

develop within you.

So the importance or the significance of what the body is must not be forgotten because

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