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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Is it OK to Masturbate? – Sadhguru Answers

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Official

Religion, Society & Culture, Science, How To, Life Sciences, Hinduism, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Education

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru answers a question from students about masturbation, on whether it is good or bad and if wasting semen can damage one spiritually. #NoFap Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Seaman is of an extraordinary level of potency. You are using it to spill it on the genuine bedsheets.

0:08.0

Okay. If that's how you're using it, well, that's your compulsion.

0:14.0

We have a biology. We cannot put it under the carpet. It's dead.

0:19.0

Body has its needs as it has, there is physical hunger, so there is sexuality.

0:24.0

But to what extent is your choice?

0:28.0

So, in the yogic culture, this is called as Virya. It is one of the most potent things.

0:33.0

Obviously, it has a potency if you know how to explore.

0:43.0

Namaskaram, Sadhguru. I want to know that when a student steps into college,

0:48.0

all of a sudden he gets, he or she gets access to a huge amount of pornographic material

0:53.0

which so far was off limits for him or her. And in the process, he or she enjoys that.

0:59.0

And as we said, he experiences, she experiences having an art.

1:03.0

But, and we even have nicknames for those people who overdo it. They masturbate.

1:08.0

We overdo it sometimes. So, how do we know how much of that is good or bad?

1:13.0

And so, can we have the truth about masturbation?

1:23.0

It looks like a popular question, right?

1:30.0

See, we have a biology. We cannot put it under the carpet. It's dead.

1:39.0

It's best we address it for what it is.

1:42.0

But right now the problem in the world is because certain religious institutions in the world took this attitude

1:49.0

that the very biology of the human being is wrong.

1:53.0

Because of this, culture started hiding it under the carpet.

1:58.0

Well, in this culture we never had it, but after the British came and left,

2:02.0

we became more prudish than the British. But before that, if you look at our temples,

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