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CHAPTER 20. BASE YOUR RULE ON THE RULE
Krishna gives nature all its due; he accepts the biological intimacy provided by nature as gracefully
as he accepts unity with God or the soul. He says nature belongs to God, it is all within God. For
Krishna, sex is not at all a problem; it is a simple fact of life.
We find it so difficult to understand how one can take sex so simply, innocently. For us it has ceased
to be a fact of life; we have made it into a seemingly intractable problem of life. Thank God we have
not yet done so with many other simple things of life, but who knows the way we are, if we will not
do it tomorrow?
Tomorrow we can say that to open one’s eyes is a sin. And then we will ask if Krishna opens his
eyes too. Tomorrow we can turn even such a simple thing as the opening and closing of eyelids into
a philosophical problem, a matter of theology and doctrinaire debate. Then we will endlessly ask
what to do or not to do with our eyes, just as now we ask about sex.
In my view Krishna’s life is utterly uninhibited, unconstrained, unlimited; he does not admit
constraints and limitations. And that is his beauty and grandeur, his uniqueness. For him all
constraints, all limitations are bondage; for him real freedom is freedom from constraints and
limitations. Unconstraint is his freedom.
But Krishna’s meaning of unconstraint is different from ours. By unconstraint we mean violation of
constraints; for Krishna it is just absence of constraints, limitations. If you bear this in mind, you will
have no difficulty in understanding Krishna’s life in the context of sex, or anything for that matter.
Sex is not a problem for him as it is for us; we keep thinking and re-thinking endlessly about it. For
him sex is just biological. If sex happens it happens, if it does not, it does not.
So far as we are concerned, sex has become much more psychological, cerebral, than biological; it
is much more in our minds than it is in its own right place – the sex center.
Psychologists say that modern man has sex on the brain. Krishna does not have to think about sex;
we do. We think when we enter into sex and we think even when we don’t. Krishna does not have
to think and come to a decision about it, it is not at all a matter of mentation for him. If a moment
of love arrives which calls for sex, Krishna is available to it. It is just a happening. If it does not
happen, Krishna does not crave for or care about it. For him sex is just sex; he neither justifies it nor
condemns it.
Justification or condemnation is our education, our opinion, our prejudice. It has nothing to do with
the fact of sex, which is pure biology. That which is, is; it is neither good nor bad. And Krishna
accepts that which is and even that which is not.
I repeat: Krishna’s meaning of acceptance is not the same as ours. When we accept something
we do so against our denial of it; we do so by suppressing our denial. The denial is there but
we suppress the denying part of our mind and somehow manage to accept it. This acceptance is
fragmentary, it is done reluctantly. It is acceptance with reservations, with some ulterior motive. For
us it is never unconditional and total acceptance. When Krishna accepts he just accepts, there is
not a trace of denial in it.
For this very reason it has been tremendously difficult to understand Krishna. It is easy to understand
Mahavira, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed, but Krishna is one person in the whole world who is the
Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 397 Osho