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THE WAY OF LIFE
intimate and friendly with man. The relationship of husband and wife is established for this reason. But to secure that happiness which really is not happiness, but only a travesty of happiness, into what kind of bondage man falls? By marrying, man accepts intimacy with woman, and woman accepts intimacy with man. From this one bondage many other bondages arise. All relationships are bondages.
From the Audience : There will not be any bondage if one does not marry and if one seeks and finds enjoyment in the company of someone or the other.
Maharajashri : As long as desires exist, bondages also exist. Those who have sexual contacts with others will get dreadful diseases. Their minds become fickle and wavering. Many physical and mental ailments afflict them. Therefore, there are two ways; either you remain celibate or you marry and become a householder. If you do not want to be celibate and if you do not want to marry, your worries and agitations will be endless. You will cause misery to yourself and bring about a derogation in society. That man who does not have contact only with one woman but who has sexual contacts with many women is a curse upon society. He is a menace to the women in society.
In this manner, sexual passion, destroys inner peace. Inner peace, inner felicity and inner happiness are our precious wealth. They constitute our most precious possession and sexual passion plunders that wealth. Those who are ignoble in conduct and who have illicit contacts, with other women, lose this wealth.
REALISE THE INNER GRANDEUR
Fearlessness and peace are man's inner wealth -- his inner splendour. When a man pursues the path of ignobility provoked by sexual passion and when he acts ignobly and has illicit contacts with other women, he loses his inner wealth and splendour. His fearlessness disappears. His peace disappears; and in their place, fears and worries abound around him. When man's mental state is thus perturbed and polluted, he cannot carry out spiritual activities; nor can he pursue monetary objec
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