If that becomes a social norm, then how do you
decide somebody has... whatever, multiple wives? And how do you decide somebody has no wife? You're opening up your memory body... This will cause a whole lot of turmoil within the system. Questioner: Sadhguru, my next question for you is - why can't one husband be with multiple women, and one woman or a wife can't be with multiple
husband in today's society among consenting adults? And what impact do these people have
when they involve in such relationships? Sadhguru: See... Body is the front end
for every other creature on this planet. The only reason this creature is dominating this
planet is not because we have the best body! You are not comparable to an elephant,
or a tiger, or anything for that matter. You're not even as good as a buffalo. (Laughter) Yes. In terms of strength and physical
prowess, you are nowhere comparable. This is dominant because of its intelligence,
this is dominant because of its consciousness. But right now, we are creating a world
where your biology is the front end of your life. These things were done at a certain time
when the social situations were such. Or men were married to many more...
- I mean more than one woman. This was mainly because men
died more often than women. Today, both man and woman are outside
both may get killed, that's different. But at that time, largely women stayed home
because she was continuously pregnant. From the age to fourteen to forty-five,
fifty, she is almost all the time - either she is pregnant or she has a young child. This is how life used to be. So because of that, she stayed home and she took
care of the property and the agriculture and stuff. Man went out to do business, or for
war, or something else, he went out. So men always died more often. So generally in most societies in the past, the number
of men was much less than the number of women. Always. This has been the state all across the world. So naturally when so many women were there, they
needed care and they needed support in the society. And those days, a woman could not exist by herself
- unless she is protected by a male partner - it would be very difficult for her to exist by herself, because she would be exploited
in so many different ways. So always they attach themselves. So naturally a man ended up having two, three
women because the population ratio was like that. But now largely it's leveled out. If that becomes a social norm, then how do you
decide somebody has... whatever, multiple wives? And how do you decide somebody has no wife? This will become a social... you
know, collision it will become! It will become lot of problems in the
society, because we may act civilized... - I'm very particular, I'm very clear about saying - we act civilized. But when we are denied basic things that we need, all our civilization evaporates
and we will behave like animals. Yes or no?
Audience: Yes! Sadhguru: So, when fundamentals are
denied, people will go (Gesture) clashing. So that's not going to work in today's world. And above all, the woman's
condition will become very bad. If you're asking this question in a more existential way... Well... See... This is a certain framework, not
just of bone and muscle and flesh, there is a certain energy framework. Only because of that it takes on a certain form. See, if you eat mangoes everyday and
let's say a cow eats mangoes everyday, at some point will you or the cow get confused
whether you are a cow or a human being? Or will the cow get confused? Such a thing never happens because there is clear-cut
inner framework, to which flesh and blood is added. But there is a framework, an evolutionary memory
framework is there, it never gets broken isn't it? So in this framework, how
strong you keep this framework, how much integrity is there to this energy
framework will determine many things about your life, many aspects of your life. Especially if you want to raise this life to another level of
function, it's very important you maintain this integrity. This is why, irrespective of which
religion, which spiritual process, if people want to raise them till to a certain point, first thing they will talk about is becoming
Monks, or Brahmacharis, or Sanyasis, because the idea is to create such a level
of integrity that this is a whole life by itself, that it doesn't lean on anything else for support. Either for physical well-being or emotional
well-being or psychological companionship, it doesn't lean on anything, it stands by itself
because you want to take it somewhere else. If you want normal function,
these things are not necessary. Now you want to become a rocket which
breaks through a certain dimension of space. Now you need to be in a different level of
force and integrity, otherwise it'll crack up. So you don't want to open your body to anything, and especially opening to multiple partners
has its own negativity in that context. How much pain and... you look at Draupadi's life. How much volatility, how much pain, how
much suffering she went through in her life. And how much pain and suffering she caused
because of her anger and jealousy and whatever else. So, these things happen for variety of reasons
you can't blame everything on that one aspect. But that aspect also has a say in these aspects
because you're opening up your memory body, your energetic body, which is essentially
ruled by memory, to variety of memories. This will cause a whole lot of turmoil within the system
which could affect that life and many other lives. So Draupadi's life is in a way a sample for that. It's not an absolute. This is not an absolute but this has an influence.
The answer seemed so vague to me or I didn't understand. II he saying in ancient days it was justified to have multiple partners and that shouldn't happen anymore?
On whether having multiple partners is correct or not, i believe the world supposed in 'Brave New World' might happen in the future.