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32 / MANAV DHARMA
The two senses of touch and taste wilfully enter in the enjoyment of their own pleasures. The sense of touch needs to take rest on the soft smooth and velvet made beds and wants to remain far away from the slightest touch of hard pebbles and stones. while it is not difficult to have a touch of the second rather than that of the first only. Similarly our togue wants to taste different kinds of delicious sweet dishes and does not want to accept the juiceless and tasteless food, but this habit, too, can be checked by ones own purposeful thinking.
When both the organs of touch and taste senses enter in the enjoyment of their own subject, then the other organs of the rest of three-senses-ear. eyes and nose do get their sensual satisfaction also. The husband and wife come in close touch with each other, start embracing with all love and affection with each other and while using the organ of touch sense; they all enjoy the perfume and fragerance of various kinds, using the organ of smell-sense i.e. nose and further they enjoy the sweet music through their organ of hearing sense i.e. ears and with all these enjoyments of ear, eyes and nose, they enter in copulation arising. from sexual passions which is a measure of the satisfaction of their organ of touching sense. Thus a householder enjoys the pleasures of all the five senses, when he is in touch with his own wife.
Now the author advices that there is the great need of controlling the senses of touch and taste and it is possible if a man tries hard he can remain far away from their pleasures. But it is very difficult to keep away from the sense of odour which is the subject of nose. Bed odour and sweet smell both the perfumes are adopted by the nose. But it may be possible for a man that even after smelling a pleasant fragrance, he may not be attracted towards it and after smelling bad odour, he should not hate it. Only in this practical manner, we can save ourselves from the pleasures of the nose-sense of smelling other wise not. To close the nostrils with the hand-kerchief at the bad smell of kerosene oil and to smell deeply the odour of rose flower; in both these conditions a man should remain neutral if he wants to control his sense of odour or sense of smelling. In the same manner a Mahavrati should remain neutral on the subjects of pleasures of ears and eyes. Neither the sense of pleasure nor' the sense of sorrow should be his subject. That is why the subject of enjoyment of these three senses or Indriyas - ears eyes and nose fall under the category of the word Bhog - sensual pleasures. And to abstain from these sensual pleasures and sexual passions will constitute the relity of Brahmacharya or celibacy. And it becomes the prime duty of all Mahavraties to followup Brahmacharya.
