"The simple truth is that sex is the starting point of all journeys to love. The birthplace of the journey to love, love’s Gangotri – the source, the origin of the Ganges of love – is sex. And everybody is inimical to it – all cultures, all religions, all gurus, all holy men. So this is an attack at the Gangotri itself, at the very source, and the river is stopped there: ‘Sex is sin,’ ‘Sex is irreligious,’ ‘Sex is poison!’ And we never even give it a thought that it is sexual energy that ultimately transforms and transmutes into love. The evolution of love is nothing but transformed sex energy.

"Looking at a piece of coal, it would never occur to you that this very coal will transform into a diamond. There is no essential difference between coal and a diamond. The elements in a lump of coal are the same as those in a diamond. Passing through a process taking thousands of years, coal becomes a diamond.

"But coal is not considered important. When coal is kept in a house it is stored in a place where it cannot be seen by guests, whereas diamonds are worn around the neck or on the breast so that everybody can see them. Diamonds and coal are the same: but there seems no visible relationship between the two, that they are two points on a journey made by the same element. If you are against coal – which is very likely, because at first glance it has nothing more to offer than black soot – the possibility of its transformation into a diamond ends right there. It is the coal itself which could have been transformed into a diamond.

"It is sexual energy which transforms into love. But everyone is against it, is inimical to it." Osho