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Aptavani-9
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What does our Gnan (Self-knowledge) say? What is in this world worth enjoying? You are needlessly struggling in pursuit of these pleasures. The bliss of the Self is the only experience worth pursuing
Questioner: The bliss that exists in the Self does not exist anywhere else.
Dadashri: Where else can bliss exist? All those pleasures are imaginary. If you imagine happiness (project happiness in something), you feel happy. One person says, 'I like jalebee (crisp fried sweet soaked in sugar syrup) very much,' and another person says, 'when I see jalebee I feel like throwing up.' So these pleasures are imagined, not real.
The whole world accepts gold as something precious and pleasing but the Gnani Purush does not. Even the Jain saints reject it. The world has imagined pleasure to exist in sex. Sexual interaction is nothing but sheer filth. How can bliss exist there? Lalacha for sex; what a demeaning state
Questioner: Are all conflicts and quarrels results 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 took some castor oil!
Questioner: It sends shivers through my body to see people go through so much suffering just for such a momentary pleasure.
Dadashri: That is 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 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 Krupadudev has said that one would not like to even spit at it.
Questioner: Is it because of lack of awareness (agruti) that these faults in matters of sexuality arise?
Dadashri: Awareness cannot remain where there is intense greed (alacha). The root cause is intense greed for pleasure.
Questioner: So how does one get rid of his intense greed (alacha)? Does he do it by saying, 'I do not want sex?
Dadashri: He has to understand 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. 'We' find it hard to understand why one is stuck with this intense greed for sex when even the mind, the intellect and the ego do not like it.
Questioner: One experiences momentary pleasure in it.
Dadashri: No, it is not a question of momentary pleasure. Everyone is stuck in it because the world indulges in it and finds it pleasurable.
It is something even the sense organs do not accept. There is no problem with eating jalebee. Jalebee too is a vishaya (object of pleasure) but there is no problem with it. It looks appealing to the eyes and when you break it, you can hear it crack. It smells fragrant and it appeals to the taste buds. Even the fingers like to touch it. So, what 'we' are saying is that if your senses accept it, eat the jalebee. But with sex, the sense of smell finds it so repugnant that one will not feel like eating for three days!
A lalachu man will beg and bow down to a woman for sex. That is how unaware a man can become. What I am saying is that, what is the need for seeking any other pleasure after experiencing the bliss of the Self?
Sex is nothing but filth! It is covered up filth. One would
