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against the law of nature, and makes one even more perverted.
They say that sex is necessary for good health.
Dadashri : They are right. Sex is necessary for those
who are ignorant of the Self (agnanis), the worldly people.
Those who understand brahmacharya do not need sex. The one
who does not understand brahmacharya cannot be bound by
the rules of brahmacharya otherwise, major damage will be
done, and he will be destroyed.
Sex is such a thing that one day’s sexual activity would
not let one attain any meaningful concentration on anything for
three days. There would be instability in the concentration, focus
on the task at hand. When one abstains from sex for a month,
his stability in concentration and focus is greatly improved.
Abrahmacharya and alcohol are two things that bring a
very heavy veil of ignorance over Gnan. Therefore, one must be
very vigilant in these two matters. Alcohol is such that it makes
one forget, ‘I am Chandulal’, then the pure Soul would definitely
be forgotten, would it not? That is why the Lord has said that
you should be scared of it. The person, who has a complete
experience of the Self, would not be affected. Still there lies
tremendous danger in its ability to uproot the Lord’s Gnan and
throw it out.
The one who wants to have the total experience of the
Self must definitely not have any element of sexuality, and that
too is not a rule. If, in the last fifteen years of his last life, one
has been free of sexuality, then it is good enough. It is not
necessary to take up this extreme exercise of brahmacharya life
after life. Letting go of sexuality should be a natural process so
that it goes away on its own. Your unflinching internal decision
should be that until you attain liberation, whatever two to four
more lives you may have left, it is best if they go without being
married. There is nothing like it.