How to Handle Money and Sex | Sadhguru

foreign these are two things right now in the world which is taking almost 95 percent of human energy money and sex everywhere you see it's dripping with either money or sex every advertisement every magazine every book is something right or wrong about it even 95 is a conservative estimate yes almost 100 [Music] this question is something most of us face in our day-to-day lives it's about money and why man is so enormously obsessed with money is there something like a healthy attitude that one can develop towards and you say something about what's unhealthy about money and it's just a means isn't it man is not obsessed with money man is obsessed [Music] with what money can buy isn't it it is an empowerment that the money brings which people want is not the money that they want the empowerment that the money gives you isn't it the excess and the freedom that it gives you with the physical world with which people want so money is not the thing money as a means yes there is something wrong with money what's wrong we created it isn't it otherwise we could still continued our transaction in barter system because our transactions got complicated barter became too tricky we created currency currency became too tricky so we created a card so it is just a means is something right or wrong about it nothing right or wrong about it if money is in your pocket it makes your life easy and comfortable because you have some money in your pocket you're sitting here today thinking of inner development and things if you were in the slum with no money in your pocket today you wouldn't be sitting here doing somebody mahamudra isn't it you would be just struggling to keep that house going or building a boat to float inside your house [Music] something like that isn't it because you got a little money in your pocket today you can sit here no matter it's raining it's going to flood if it floods it's okay we'll stay in the hotel [Music] because there's little money in your pocket this much Freedom isn't it so there's no money at all in your pocket this wouldn't be possible so nothing wrong with money money in your pocket is good if it stays in the pocket if it enters your head it becomes a perversion but most people it's entered their head and it's become a proportion keep the money in your pocket makes life easy and good you can sit and meditate yes if you have enough money that you don't have to work for your living tomorrow you can just take off one month and just meditate isn't it which the man who is struggling for money for tomorrow's food cannot do even if he wishes to do so money in the pocket is very good [Music] money in your head that's a perversion which will destroy you you must keep everything in its place these are two things right now in the world which is taking almost 95 percent of human energy money and sex these two things are right now consuming almost 95 percent of human potential is it so even 95 is a conservative estimate yes almost 100 percent as money is in your pocket is good and nice similarly if sex is in your body it is nice but if it enters your head it becomes a perversion he's gotten into people's heads it's not in their body it's gardening to their heads if it was in their body it wouldn't be all the time it will be only some time isn't it it's gotten into their heads and it's all the time this is a disease if you know how to keep money in your pocket and sex in your body then you will leave you live your life well you got both these things into your head now you can't live well you look you live like a deceased person because it will rule you from inside and destroy you in many different ways everything beautiful about you will be taken away once money and sex enters your head isn't it right now do you see the whole world is painted either with money or sex at least the Civilized part of the world isn't it so everywhere you see it's dripping with either money or sex just Drive in Bombay City and see every advertisement every magazine every book it's either dripping with money or sex isn't it so now these two things if they fall into their natural places where they should be they're not a problem they are fine they have their own Beauty attached to it but if you exaggerate it in your mind then everything becomes ugly so money has become a problem because you don't know where to keep it keep it in your pocket it's a good thing [Music] [Music] if you're feeling stress tension anxiety you must know your own intelligence is turned against you if you understand all human experiences coming from within how can you not engineer yourself to perfection in engineering essentially means to bringing yourself to a state where all the faculties of Being Human works for you not against you [Music]