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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
being pierced by you through your power of Brahmacharya. You are the glorious Sun of suns now.
The fly runs towards the fire or lamp thinking that it is a flower and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form thinking that he can get real happiness, and gets himself burnt up in the fire of lust.
A deer is entrapped through sound; an elephant through touch; a fly through form, a fish through taste; a bee through smell. When such is the power of a single Indriya, what to speak of the combined effects of the five Indriyas of men?
How difficult it is control a servant of the house! How much more difficult it will be to control one Indriya! How still more difficult it will be to control the five Indriyas! That Yogi who has control of the Indriyas ( Jitendriya) is a mighty potentate on earth. The bliss of Indra and Chakravati is nothing when compared to that of a Jitendriya Yogi My silent adoration to such a Yogi'
Even among electrons there are bachelor electrons and married electrons Married electrons manifest in pairs. Bachelor electrons exist singly It is these bachelor electrons only that create magnetic electric force. The power of Brahmacharya is seen even in electrons. Friends, will you learn some lessons from these electrons? Will you practise Brahmacharya and develop power and spiritual force? Nature is your best teacher and spiritual guide.
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