Brahmcharya 75
yours, because the consequences of illicit sex are very grave. And if you have renounced sex then you should never look towards anything sexual. It is inhuman to take what is not rightfully yours, to wish for what is not rightfully yours and to wish for sex that is not rightfully yours. Should there not be a line of demarcation between what is rightfully yours and what is not? You should never cross that line. Still, people have crossed that line, have they not? This is called beastliness. There is no problem in enjoying what is rightfully yours.
Questioner: Which tendency is that which drags one to enjoy sex which is not rightfully his or hers?
Dadashri: The intent of deceit and theft.
By disregarding what is rightfully yours, if you engage in sex with another woman, you will have to take birth wherever that woman goes in her next life. If she goes to a lower life form, you too will have to go there with her. These days, this happens everywhere. Have you any idea where your next birth will be?’ People who have enjoyed sex that is not rightfully theirs will have to suffer painful miseries. Even their daughters would become characterless. The rule is that the person with whom you have interacted sexually that was not rightfully yours will, in lives to come, become your mother or your daughter.
Even the Lord allows sex with your wife, not with anyone else. If He were to refuse even this then he would be guilty. He has said no to what is not rightfully yours. If repentance is done for all illicit sex, then also one can be freed. But these people are happily enjoying sex that is not rightfully theirs and that is why they bind a very strong knot of suffering of many lives.
Illicit sex is a violation of all the five major vows given by the Lord. In that, you commit himsa( violence), you tell lies and you are openly stealing. It is a day light robbery. Then,