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inclination, then one should fast two to three times. When the force of unfolding karma is very strong, fasting can stop them. Fasting does not destroy these sexual passions completely.
[ 2 ]‘ Three Vision’ Stops Sexual Vision
Use the same experiment that I had used for myself. For me this experiment is constantly in place and it had kept me aware even before enlightenment. When my eyes fall on someone wearing beautiful clothes, a saree worth two thousand rupees, I become aware and my first vision see her without clothes. Then a second awareness arises and I see the body without the skin and then the third awareness arises and I see the intestines, the kind you see when the stomach is cut open. I can also see changes that occur within the intestines. I can see blood vessels; I can see fecal matter etc. I can see all the refuse this way. Then there is no chance of sexual impulse arising, is there? In all this, the Soul is the only pure thing and that is where my vision stops. Therefore how can any illusion over sex ever occur?
Shrimad Rajchandra has said,“ All the miseries come to an end if you do not get deluded and see the pure Soul( within all).” We read in scriptures that you should not become attached to women but you forget this the moment you see a woman.
This is the illusion. It is a deluded view. If this illusion leaves, this view that‘ I am Chandulal’, and instead the right vision of,‘ I am pure Soul’, takes hold then all suffering comes to an end. Then the delusion will not happen and attraction will not occur.
Questioner: When a man looks at a woman and has sexual thoughts about her, is the woman also at fault, to some extent?
Dadashri: No, the woman is not at fault at all. Lord Mahavir’ s appearance was such that a lot of women were