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breaths. Sexual activity leads to an enormous consumption of
breaths. That is why I tell people engaged in this worldly life
that if they cannot do anything it is fine, but they should at
least conserve money and virya (semen, vitality). These two
things are the principle foundations of the worldly life. Alcohol
is considered to be harmful because it drives one towards
sexuality.
There are infinite numbers of vishayas. A million births
will not suffice for one to enjoy them and exhaust them. I have
made my mahatmas free from the vishayas (nirvishayee) despite
the fact that they continue enjoying all vishayas.
Until one acquires Self-realization, one is constantly
engulfed by vishayas because of the presence of the ego and
the belief of doer-ship.
Those whose vishay – topic, is non-attachment, only such
a person can understand a Vitarag - the Absolute, but how can
those who are subject to anger, pride, attachment and greed,
understand a Vitarag? If a person who is not Self-realized, were
to suppress his sexuality for his entire life, he would still be
vunerable to sexuality in his next life. There is no escaping
sexuality without Self-realisation.
The Self is nirvishayee, so how can it enjoy any vishayas?
If the Self is the enjoyer of vishaya, it would never attain liberation
because enjoyment of sense-pleasure would become an integral
and inseparable part of the Self, it would become a compound.
This is against the principles of the function of elements. The
Self can never enjoy any vishaya. It is an illusion, an exercise
of the ego, when one says, ‘I enjoyed’. And this is precisely
why there is so much confusion and why one’s spiritual progress
is at a stand still. If this illusion is destroyed, one can remain
nirvishayee (the Self) amidst endless vishayas of the relative
world.