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ambition, and is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life.
Mahavira said, “Continence is four fold - of the mind, body, speech and possession."
Chastity is love without lust or restraints of senses, which means renunciation of lustful desire. Bodily happiness is only a shadow of real happiness. Besides enjoyments of the body are only short-lived and the sources of consequent misery, disease and death. Chastity has implication beyond sexual temperance, consisting by not living in the flesh but outside the flesh. Celibacy excludes not only libidinous acts, but also sinful thoughts or a desire of the flesh. Worldly life is necessary for the preservation of humanity and the continuation of the religion. It has become widely accepted in our culture that the sex is not sinful but natural, and sex within marriage is both proper and necessary for mental hygiene and physical wellbeing. For householders chastity means no fidelity in marriage and to curb their sexual acts as much as feasible while still maintaining a fulfilling and producing offspring
Non-violence can be seen as a noble gesture of love for all creatures. All intentional actions that affect other living beings result in the accumulation of karma that adheres to one's soul. Love and sexual activity are grounded in non-violence. While the emotion love spontaneously arises as a human disposition, its further refinement, control, diffusion and articulation are accomplished through non-violence. Thousands of minute one and two-sensed being reside in the genitals and the higher number of organisms living in damp groin and in the moist area between a woman's breasts.
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