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Jaina Acūra : Siddhanta aura Svarūpa
243 quite aware of human nature and hence was the necessity of formulating a rigid code of conduct and particular care was taken to implement it. They knew that the sexual passion is not naturally irresistible but accidental and so their objective was to extirpate it.
There used to be charming young nuns too. As such, they were required to stay separate but under special circumstances monks were there to prevent any sexual assault on them.
Wrath, deceit, pride, jealousy, greed, attachment and aversion cause mental perversion. Attachment incites sexual craving.
Jainism permits no exception to the vow of celibacy. Expiation is the only way out, even if the violation itself should have been to promote restraint. There may be occasions when a choice has to be made between life and breach of chastity, Nuns would certainly preser death to such dishonour. But if some monk or nun prefers to live, thinking that later he would expiate for the violation, it is a serious lapse all the same.
Nisithacurni relates how a girl used to sit idle and only deck her body with the result that she began to experience irresistible sexual craving. The old lady in the house was a wise one. She entrusted all household duties to her. They kept her so busy day and night that she had no time even to think of philandering . Likewise monks and nuns should never let time hang heavy on their hands. They should keep themselves absorbed in self-study, meditation, concentration and the like. A regular disciplined life leaves no scope for loafing about, for idle gossip, for back-biting and the like.
Celibacy is rightly the backbone of penance. If the body be diseased because of leading a dissolute life, there can be no penance. The body should not be dandled but handled with discrimination to enable it fulfil the legitimate aspiration of the soul to rise high and higher sull,
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