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CHAPTER 6. NUDITY AND CLOTHING SHOULD GO TOGETHER
for tomorrow, which has yet to come? And how can I speak for a person I have yet to know? And if
I give such a promise, troubles are bound to arise tomorrow. Tomorrow, on the scene, that person
can appear who is not aware of my pledge, of my promise. Tomorrow an altogether different state
of my heart-mind can arise, which will be unaware of the promise I make today. And if I fall in love
with another person tomorrow, this promise, this pledge will come in the way of that love.
If I fall in love with another person tomorrow – and it is not impossible – I will be faced with two
alternatives. Then, on one hand, I will have to enter into a clandestine love affair, and on the other I
will have to pretend to love the person I had promised to love forever. And that is what is happening
all around. But isn’t it an immoral and ugly society whose true love is forced to go underground and
whose false love rules the roost?
So I consider marriage to be immoral. And I say it is the handiwork of an immoral society. And
then marriage, in turn, gives rise to a thousand and one immoralities. Prostitution is one of them;
it is a byproduct of marriage. Where people seek to make the institution of marriage strong and
sacrosanct, the prostitute appears on the scene immediately.
The prostitute protects the chastity of wives, like Savitri of Indian myth. If you have to save the
chastity of wives the prostitute is the answer. Even a wife would prefer her husband go to a
prostitute rather than fall in love with his neighbor’s wife – because love is an involvement, and
so it is dangerous. A wife will be in danger if her husband falls in love with another woman, but there
is no danger if he visits a brothel once in a while; her position remains safe. Prostitution does not
demand involvement; you can buy it with money. Love demands deep involvement, and therefore
wives consented to the institution of prostitution – but they cannot consent to love, to their husbands
falling in love with another woman.
When I say it, when I say that sex or love is natural and should be accepted naturally, you object to
it with the plea it will put a person conditioned by moralistic upbringing and ridden with taboos into
difficulty. I tell you, that person is already in deep trouble and what I am saying here can help him
free himself from his difficulty. He is already beset with enough troubles and problems. Where is
that man who is not in deep waters? He is really drowning. But we don’t see those troubles because
they are so old and we are so used to them. If a disease is chronic we tend to forget it. What I say
can create a new difficulty, not in the sense that it will really bring difficulty to you, but that it will call
on you to give up your old habits, your old conditionings, which is re ally arduous.
But if someday mankind consents to accept life as it is, simple, natural and spontaneous; if people
give up imposing unnatural and impossible moralities on themselves, which are anything but moral,
then hundreds of thousands of Krishnas will walk this earth. Then the whole earth will be covered
with Krishnas.
Lastly, you want to know why Krishna has been described in many colors. Really, he was a man
of many colors. He was a colorful man. He cannot be presented in a single color; he was really
multicolored. The color of his skin cannot be more than one, but his life, of course, has all the colors
of the rainbow. And a lot depends on the quality of the eyes with which you see him. In fact, you see
him in the color of your own perception.
A single person takes on different colors and also sees different colors in different states of mind
because a single person is not really the same in different states of his heart-mind. I take on a
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