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OF BRAHMACARYA®
If ye desire every woman thou see, ye will be without any hold like a sedge, which wavereth at every gust of wind.
He who is engaged in penance, therefore, should not allow himself to look at a woman's shape, beauty, blandishment, laughter, prattle, gesture, and glance, nor consider them in mind.
For, of all temptations, the craving for women is the most difficult to overcome, as of all rivers the vaitariņt is the most difficult to cross.
Neither deer-skin, nor nakedness, nor matted hair, nor a piece of yellow cloth, nor tonsure can protect a bhiksu 10 of unchaste character.
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Suratwww.umaragyanbhandar.com
