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Aptavani-9
Questioner: Is it because of lack of awareness (jagruti)
that these faults in matters of sexuality arise?
Dadashri: Awareness cannot remain where there is intense
greed (lalacha). The root cause is intense greed for pleasure.
Questioner: So how does one get rid of his intense
greed (lalacha)? Does he do it by saying, ‘I do not want sex’?
Dadashri: He has to understand facts about sexuality. He
has to understand everything about it very clearly. Sex is
something that does not appeal to any of the senses; the eyes do
not like it, the ears do not like to hear it, the nose does not like
to smell it, the tongue does not like to taste it. It does not appeal
to any of the five senses; he has to understand all this. ‘We’ find
it hard to understand why one is stuck with this intense greed for
sex when even the mind, the intellect and the ego do not like it.
Questioner: One experiences momentary pleasure in it.
Dadashri: No, it is not a question of momentary
pleasure. Everyone is stuck in it because the world indulges in
it and finds it pleasurable.
It is something even the sense organs do not accept.
There is no problem with eating jalebee. Jalebee too is a
vishaya (object of pleasure) but there is no problem with it. It
looks appealing to the eyes and when you break it, you can hear
it crack. It smells fragrant and it appeals to the taste buds. Even
the fingers like to touch it. So, what ‘we’ are saying is that if
your senses accept it, eat the jalebee. But with sex, the sense
of smell finds it so repugnant that one will not feel like eating for
three days!
A lalachu man will beg and bow down to a woman for
sex. That is how unaware a man can become. What I am saying
is that, what is the need for seeking any other pleasure after
experiencing the bliss of the Self?
Sex is nothing but filth! It is covered up filth. One would