Book Title: Aptavani 09
Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

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________________ and another person says, 'when I see jalebee I feel like puking.' So these pleasures are imagined, not real. The whole world will accept gold as a reason for pleasure and the Gnani Purush or even the Jain saints will reject it as a source of pleasure. The world has imagined pleasure to exist in sex. Sexual interaction is nothing but sheer filth. How can bliss exist there? Intense greed lalacha for sex, what a sorry state of affairs Questioner: Are all conflicts and quarrels are result of one taking pleasure from sex? Dadashri: All this has arisen from sex and there is no pleasure in it. In the morning, these people's faces look like they just had some castor oil! Questioner: It sends shivers through my body to see people go through so much suffering just for such momentary pleasure. Dadashri: That is intense greed lalacha; intense greed lalacha of enjoying sex. Then when he experiences the miseries of a life in hell, he comes to the realization of 'what is there to enjoy in it?' You can call a man having intense greed lalacha for sex, an animal. Sex will stop only when one shudders with horror at the thought of it. How can it stop otherwise? That is why Krupaudev has said that one would not even like to spit at it. Questioner: Is it because of lack of awareness jagruti that these faults arise in matters of sexuality? Dadashri: Awareness cannot remain where there is intense greed lalacha. The root cause is intense greed for pleasure. Questioner: So how does one get rid of his intense greed lalacha? Does he do it by saying, 'I do not want sex"? Dadashri: He has to understand the facts about sexuality. He has to understand everything about it very clearly. Sex is something that does not appeal to any of the senses; the eyes do not like it, the ears do not like to hear it, the nose does not like to smell it, the tongue does not like to taste it. It does not appeal to any of the five senses; he has to understand all this.

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