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show the nature of the passion, the following ten points are given:
In Dr. Nicholson's book on Zoology it is stated that the act of procreation is very weakening to the person, bodily and mentally, and is therefore injurious.
According to the Jain philosophy (and other philosophies also), the creative fluid can be changed into a higher substance which can be used for spiritual purposes, if it is known how to change it. It gives, in fact, a strong will.
There is a special Jain teaching, which is not the teaching of any other philosophical system, that in every aci of sexual intercourse nine hundred thousand living beings. very minute, of the shape of the human being, and having the five senses, but no mind, are generated and killed. This must be taken on the faith of the teaching of the "Arhat" or Master; but then he has those eighteen characteristics which were mentioned (see pages 48 to 51).
It is an infatuating force which obscures right belief and right action; the virtues are all set aside at the time; also is reason.
It is the opinion of the Jain philosophy that the plans, ideas, intentions, and schemes of a person, who is full of excessive passion, do not bear fruit; or, if they do that, it is owing to the working of a “karma" or foreign energy. The mind is all the time on beautiful women.
The success of the control of nature's finer forces that are not generally known, depends upon chastity.
The success of “mantras” (i.e., spells) also depends entirely upon chastity. It is not the vibrations of the
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