If Hindu’s top religious teacher Shankaracharya, or Sri Paramhamsha Nityananda was alleged to enjoy sex with women, as reported in media, should he be blamed for this?

If Hindu’s top religious teacher Shankaracharya, or Sri Paramhamsha Nityananda was alleged to enjoy sex with women, as reported in media, should he be blamed for this?  

As is Pope considered sacred in Christianity, almost same is or was the position of Shankaracharya in Hinduism. Recently you may have read the report in the newspaper or may have seen the same on T.V., in which it was alleged that Kaanchi’s pontiff Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati used to enjoy sexual pleasure with women. What is the truth, that we don’t know, nor are we concerned to go into individual’s private life affairs. But, taking the Shankaracharya as an institution into consideration, we must investigate the approach of the society assuming that if the reports were true.

Acceptance of reality v/s sanctimoniousness

 If Shankaracharya is to be blamed, he should be blamed for the hypocrisy, rather than being blamed for getting indulged into sex or any other way of carnal pleasure. The ultimate result of all the true spiritual exercises is the freedom, freedom from all bondages, freedom from the Karmic laws. If a man is on true spiritual path, he should be quite bold and courageous. So if a true spiritual seeker feels lust for something whether it be sex or any thing else, he should have the guts to accept the reality. Only cowards try to escape from the reality and a coward can never become a true spiritual person. He should have been bold enough to accept what he did or he intended to or wished to do. Spirituality is a process of going deeper into the subtle mysteries of this vast existence and when a person is not able to understand and accept the stout facts of this nature, how can be perceive and live with the subtle realities. Spirituality is a step ahead of the material world. So only those persons whose boldness is capable to transcend the futility of the material world, only they can step into unknown and yet to be explored world of vast majestic spiritual reality. As far as our worldly existence is concerned, a common man is so coward that despite knowing the fact that everyone knows the reality about him, he is not able to accept the reality, just to preserve his vain ego. If Shankaracharya used to enjoy sex, he should have been bold enough to accept this fact, rather than getting indulged into sex secretly. He is not bold enough to stand confidently against people’s false and foolish pervasive belief about sex.

Let us analyze our approach

Most of the people believe that they are religious people. They believe in God. They believe that God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. They believe that nothing can take place without the wish of God. They believe that God can never do anything wrong. Why won’t they apply the same logic when they think of sex? If everything is created by God only, same should be true in regard to sex too. And when instinct of sex has been created by God, how can it be wrong? And if it is not wrong, then if Shankaracharya or any so called religious teacher enjoys it, what is wrong in it? If people consider sex as a sin, as it is considered not only in Hinduism, but also in Christianity and so many other religions, so what does it mean? They are more smart and intelligent than God. Secondly, if they themselves enjoy sex, then how it can be justified to expect your religious teachers not to do the same? Why are there two standards, one for self and another for others? If a man is greedy, aggressive, dishonest, he is so, not because of his own reasons. But in fact a person has got the instincts for all these from this nature, the vast existence. And if existence has given something, how it can be wrong. We are really very strange people. On the one side we worship Lord Shiva who gave an entire stream of meditation based on sex called Tantra Meditation, moreover we worship the union of genital organs of Lord Shiva and his wife Parvati, and on the other hand we condemn sex, we consider it a sin. If Shankaracharya has got lust for sex, it is the manifestation of this vast existence in him. So not only people, but Shankaracharya too accept this truth. Whether people accept it or not, it is not so important as it is for Shankaracharya. Being a religious head, he still has got the opportunity to start his true spiritual journey. Vast can still unfold its divine mystery upon him, if he becomes a traveler of the path of search.

Thank You.

Swami Aaron, MBA

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