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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Goal of Desire or Sex
Desire or Sex is an important motivating force in our life. But this is not a fundamental urge but a cultivated one which is largely a result of one's upbringing environment, etc. The Jain scriptures consider the enjoyment and domination of ser or desire as dispensabile and censurable. There are two ivays of controlling the urge for sex or the dominance of desire; 1) continence and 2) hatha
Yoga.
The teachers of Yoga describe six chukius or circles which is known as the Sundhisthana Chukin, and when developed, it center's us in our soul and nothing else. This provides us immense bliss which does not arise from sensual pleasure but from spiritual pleasure. This is known as sublimation in moderni psichology. The pleasure of sex is not the inherent bliss of the soul but it is our externally dciuired pleasure which, in fact, taints the inherent pozrets of the soul such as knowledge, belief, character etc. Thus the liige of sex actually suppresses the soul's fundamental urge's.
The goal of desire involves grcediness of wealth and earnings of power, position, glory etc. und increases the appetite for the enjoyment of the objects of senses and thus turns into the desire for ser.
It is for this l'euson that our saints and scriptures define desire and sex as vices which poison our life, prescribe desirelessness and absence
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