Why Gautama Buddha Sent a Monk to a Prostitute – Sadhguru

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Sadhguru tells us a story about why Gautama the Buddha sent his disciple to a prostitute’s house. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.orgSadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__appOfficial Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.orgSadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusiveYogi, 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	She said, I hear that monks are looking for shelter in many homes.
0:05.0	Why don't you come and stay in my house?
0:08.0	Gautama said, if she's inviting you with so much affection, you must go stay there.
0:13.0	Then people saw, see, he's gone.
0:18.0	Gatima, the Buddha, with a large group of his disciples who was continuously traveling,
0:25.6	made a rule that during the monsoon season, those two and a half months,
0:32.6	you can stay in the same place.
0:35.6	The rule for the sannyasies, or the monks who were with him is you should
0:42.1	never stay in any place for more than two days. Normally the monks were sheltered in many
0:48.1	homes. So this rule he passed more than two nights you don't stay in one house because it will be too much of a burden for the host.
0:58.0	They are housing ten people.
1:00.0	You don't stay there for a month.
1:02.0	Two days.
1:04.0	It should have been one day, two because you have walked a long distance and come.
1:08.0	A bit of recovery time.
1:10.0	But during the monsoon season, he said up to two to two and a half months you can stay in one place
1:18.6	because walking through the jungles of that region during the monsoon season would be treacherous and many would lose their lives.
1:31.3	So this is a time like that. They stayed in a large town and they were spread across in many homes.
1:40.3	The monks went out to get their arms from the people, Ananda or Ananda Tirta, as he was known.
1:50.0	Who happened to be Gattama's elder brother before his monkhood?
1:55.0	Went out and there was a courtesan or a prostitute in the town.
2:00.0	She gave him arms, looked at him, a handsome young
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