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siasm. You must organise and systematise your life which is disorderly. You organise your life according to my precepts and you will be happy! You will have peace of mind. Kamapurushartha means in this context, respecting some principles and limitations regarding the sexual contacts between men and women. For you, this amounts to the victory over the senses. It is a victory over the sense of touch. You are a householder. If you have not attained so far the opportunity of observing and acting according to the special principles of the grihasthadharma; if you have not been able to renounce sexual activity then your victory over the senses is limited to your not having contacts with other women or other girls and to your having sexual contacts only with your wife. You must have sexual contacts only with your wife.
In the same manner, women should not have contacts with other men or other unmarried young men. They should not even desire their company. They should enjoy sexual contacts only with their husbands; not with others.
If you desire sexual enjoyment; and if you cannot renounce sexual pleasures, you may enjoy those pleasures but you must enjoy sexual pleasures only with your lawful and married partners. In that case, it may be said that you have achieved a victory over your senses. You are a victor over the sense on the plane that is proper to grihasthas.
From the Audience: "In order to attain a victory over the senses, one need not repress one's senses. Is it wrong to allow the senses to enjoy pleasures ?" Now-a-days some philosophers say this.
Maharajashri: If it were possible to attain a victory over the senses by indulging in sensual pleasures, all of you must have become victors over the senses long ago. For how many years, have you been enjoying sexual pleasures? In fact, even before you become victors, the other men who go to prostitutes must have become victors very soon. How many prostitutes have become victors over lust? How many men who enjoy the company of prostitutes have become victors over lust? Think a little with your intelligence. Let them, who say such things, keep saying them. In our country, we have freedom of expres
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