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passion were done only for the production of offspring then the function would not be performed more than once a year by man.
Ten points.
I.
In Dr. Nicholson's Zoology, it is stated that the act of exercising the sex passion is very weakening to the person, bodily, and mentally; that it is a very great strain upon the whole system, and is very exhausting, and is therefore injurious. In performing this act the person injures himself so much.
2. According to the Jain philosophy and other philosophies the creative fluid can be changed into a higher substance which can be used for spiritua, purposes if you know how to change it. It givesl in fact, a strong will. Preserving and changing the substance is called 'ojas'.
3. There is a special Jain teaching, which is not the teaching of any other philosophical system, that in every act of sexual intercourse 900,000 fivesense organed beings but without mentality (which have already been mentioned) of the shape of the human being but very minute, are generated and killed. This must be taken on faith in the Arhat's teaching but then the Arhat has those eighteen characteristics which have been given.
4. All the virtues are set aside just at the time of intercourse. It is an intoxicating karma
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