There is a great illusion in
front of man. It troubles him in the form of woman. There is a great illusion
in front of woman. It troubles her in the form of man.
Go wherever you
like—Amsterdam, London or New York. Analyze this world of phenomenal
experience. You will find only two things—sex and ego.
The sex instinct is the
greatest urge in human life. Sex energy or lust is the most deep-rooted
instinct in man. Sex energy entirely fills the mind, intellect, Prana, senses
and the whole body. It is the oldest of the factors that have gone into the
constitution of the human being.
A man has a thousand and one desires. But the central strong desire is the
sexual desire. The fundamental desire is the urge for a mate. All hang on this
central basic desire. The desire for money, the desire for a son, the desire for property, the desire for houses, the desire for cattle and other desires come later on.
This world is nothing but sex and ego. Ego is the chief thing. It
is the basis. Sex hangs on the ego.
If the ego is destroyed by Vichara or
enquiry of "Who am I?", the sex idea takes to its heels by itself.
Man, master of his destiny, has lost his divine glory and has become a slave, a
tool, in the hands of sex and ego on account of ignorance. Sex and ego are the
products of nescience (Avidya).
The dawn of knowledge of the Self annihilates
these two enemies of Atman, the two dacoits who are plundering the helpless,
ignorant, little, false Jiva, the illusory "I".
Man has degraded himself to a
great degree by becoming the puppet of passion. Alas! He has become an
imitative machine. He has lost his power of discrimination. He has sunk into
the most abject form of slavery. What a sad state! What a lamentable plight
indeed! If he wishes to regain his lost divine state and Brahmic glory, his
whole being must be transformed, his sex desire must be completely transmuted
by sublime divine thoughts and regular meditation. Transmutation of the sex
desire is a very potent, efficacious and satisfactory way to realize eternal
bliss.
Man, with his boasted
intellect, has to learn lessons from birds and animals. Even animals have more
self-control than men. It is only the so-called man who has degraded himself
much by indulgence. At the heat of sexual excitement, he repeats the same
ignoble act again and again. He has not a bit of self-control. He is an
absolute slave to passion. He is a puppet in the hands of passion.
Like rabbits he procreates and brings forth
countless children to swell up the numbers of beggars in the world. Lions,
elephants, bulls and other powerful animals have better self-control than men.
Lions cohabit only once in a year. After conception, the female animals will
never allow the male animals to approach them till the young ones are weaned
and they themselves become healthy and strong. Man only violates the laws of
nature and consequently suffers from innumerable diseases. He has degenerated
to a level far lower than that of animals in this respect.
As a king is no king without a
treasury, subjects and an army, as a flower is no flower without fragrance, as
a river is no river without water, so also, a man is no man without
Brahmacharya. Food, sleep, fear and copulation, are common to both animals and
men. That which differentiates a man from an animal is Dharma, Viveka and
Vichara Sakti. Jnana and Vichara can be secured only by the preservation of
Veerya. If a man has not got these qualifications, he should really be reckoned
as a veritable animal only.
If lust, which is the source of all enjoyments in this world, ceases, then
all worldly bondage, which has its substratum in the mind, will cease. Even the most virulent poison
is no poison when compared to lust. The former defiles one body only, whereas
the latter adulterates many bodies in successive births.
You are a slave of passions and desires, emotions and attractions. When are you going to rise up
from this miserable state? Those persons, who, in spite of the knowledge of the
non-existence of happiness, both in the past and in the present, in the baneful
objects of the world, do yet entangle themselves in them with their thoughts
clinging to them, deserve the appellation of an ass, if not a worse one.
If you do not possess Viveka,
if you do not try your best for salvation, if you spend your lifetime in
eating, drinking and sleeping, you are a horizontal being only, having to learn
some lessons from those animals, which possess far more self-restraint.
The sexual degradation that has overtaken mankind today is due directly to
the fact that people have assumed that there is a natural "sexual
instinct" in human beings. It is not so. The natural instinct is the
procreative one. If men and women restrict sexual indulgence to mere
procreation, then that itself is observance of Brahmacharya. As this is found
to be impossible in the vast majority of cases, total abstinence is enjoined on
those who seek the higher values of life. As far as the Sadhaka of burning
Mumukshutva is concerned, celibacy is a sine qua non, as he cannot
afford to waste his vital energy at all.
The gratification of every
worldly desire is sinful; the flesh should be the abject slave of the spirit
intent upon divine things.
Man was created for a life of
spiritual communion with God, but he yielded to the seduction of evil demons
who availed themselves of the sensuous side of his nature to draw him away from
the contemplation of the divine and lead him to the earthly life.
Moral goodness, therefore,
consists in renouncing all sensuous pleasures, in separating from the world
through discrimination and dispassion, in living solely after the spirit, in
imitating the perfection and purity of God. Sensuality is inconsistent with wisdom
and holiness. The great business of life is to avoid impurity.
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