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પ્રકરણ.
SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
Man is very careful about his money and property, but it is a very lamentable fact that he is not very painstaking to preserve his life-fluid, his all-in-all Virya. He should try to avoid the company and passionate thoughts of the fair sex and should thoroughly devote his heart and soul to some good spiritual development and social progress.
The author rightly appreciates the advantages of the practice of celibacy and chastity and condemning the evil results of immoral and vicious habits.
The cultivation of this virtue brings on supreme spiritual lustre and helps the acquisition of worldly gain and commands high respect even from the great god Indra and tends to the success of the mantras and gives fresh blood and invigorating energy to the body by the preservation of vital fluid and assists in the formation of right conduct, strengthens the powers of discrimination and advances social status and blesses one with celestial abode.
The author rightly condemns the association with prostitutes full of hypocrisy, dissimulation, ever ready to associate with men affected with dangerous diseases. Even their soft dalliance with starry eyes and flowery smiles, destroys all manly energy, good sense and discrimination, ultimately resulting in misfortunes and calamities.
થાય—
“ જે બ્રહ્મચર્ય રૂપ પ્રદીપમાં બધા દેષા પત ંગિયાનું અનુકરણ કરે
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