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THE WAY OF LIFE
Karmas. This indeed, is a great loss. Restlessness sorrow and agony originate only from our attachment for inert and perishable objects.
ABORTION IS SINFUL
Keep thinking thus; and in the practical aspect of your life, maintain purity and chastity; be carrying out Tapa (some religious austerities). Chastity reduces sensual passions. But by means of tapasya, physical desires will decline. Madanrekha was totally detached from worldly pleasures. She was going alone through a forest. She was pregnant. She had no worry or anguish. She was going alone through the wild forest reciting with devotion Shri Namaskar Mantra. She was extremely careful not to cause any agitation to the child in the womb. She bore in mind the idea that no harm should be done to the child in her womb.
From the Audience: At that time, was abortion considered a sin ?
Maharajashri: Is abortion considered right to-day? What a terrible sin abortion is? A woman who commits this sin will be condemned to suffer great anguish in her future lives, and will be morally low and barren. She will not beget children. Not only, this; those who are guilty of the sin of abortion, will be bound by ashatavedaniya karma; and in consequence, they have to suffer from many bodily diseases for many lives. We will speak of this point sometime later.
This is enough for today.
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