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18/MANAV DHARMA
should never have the feelings of leaving or discarding that right path. Slow and steady walker always wins the race.
It is well known that copulation is the action of a married man and woman prompted by sexual desires. It is a beneficiary activity for both of them, hence taken as virtuous action. But intercourse with different man or woman is a selfish and sinful activity. Married couple, may be beautiful or ugly, healthy or unhealthy, leads a joint life. Their sexual intercoure will give birth to a son or a daughter i.e. children and will give rise to a new generation. It is not merely an act of sensuous satisfaction. The sexual activity of married couple leads to pleasures, satisfaction, contentment and to virtues but illegal intercourse leads to all sins and vices it is a useless passion of man and woman. In the end, the author wisely advices every man and woman to take a willful vow of not addicting to sensuous passions and desires and to make it an innocent guiltless character, they should protect themselves from the following faults or 'Aticharas" (fr). They should note that if these faults are not avoided, then they can not safeguard their chastity.
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अन्य - विवाहाकरणा- नङ्गक्रीडाविटत्वविपुलतृषः । इत्वरिकागमनं चास्मरस्य पञ्च व्यतीचाराः ॥ ६० ॥
Explanation :
Match makingi.e. bringing, about marriages, unnatural gratification, indulging in voluptuous speech, excessive passion even for his own wife, and visiting an immoral woman, are the five faults (ATICHARAS) peculiar to the layman's vow of chastity.
Description :
To take part in marriage ceremonies of persons, other than his own son or daughter, to arrange marriages and engagements of sons and daughters of different persons, to adopt unnatural ways and means of sexual gratification (without the use of male and female organ) like hand practice, to take more interest in women; to have excessive passion for sexual contact even with his own wife or even with her own husband; to establish sexual relations with immoral woman; all these are such faults which bring down the chastity of man or his celibacy. By establishing matches for matrimonial purposes of sons and daughters of other persons or by arranging contacts of men and women, the infatuation (H) is developed, which, in its own turn, causes extension or increase in sexual passions.
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The habit of doing hand practice of male-organ is the greatest vice in a man. Comparatively it is better to establish the action of
