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DISCOURSE 48
343 LET NOT MARRIAGE TAKE PLACE TILL THEN.
Until you marry, you should be celibate. People should not have premarital sexual contacts. Before marriage, people should not have sexual contacts even with the members of their own sex. The body goes on developing throughout youth. If during that period people observe the principle of celibacy, their bodies will develop well and they will have excellent physical strength. From the time of the appearance of the phase of youth, the human mind acquires a new development. If people follow the principle of celibacy, their memory and their thinking power will develop very well. As long as you can control your sexual passion, you must observe the principle of celibacy. When you feel that you cannot control your sexual passion, you must marry.
AFTER THE MARRIAGE
You must not have sexual contacts with others except with your married partner. If you have sexual contacts with others than your married partners, then countless physical, mental, domestic and social maladies will appear. Such a thing brings about diseases in the body, agitations and fears in the mind misery and quarrels in the family and disgrace in society. From the point of view of Dharma, you will gather sinful Karmas and will face spiritual ruin.
In order to exercise a control over your sexual passion, you must not have any contact or acquaintance with other women. You should not talk with other women unnecessarily. You should not laugh in their presence. You should not meet them when they are alone. You should not develop illicit intimacies with them.
In the same manner, women should not talk much with other men; should not laugh in their company and should not meet them when they are alone. They should not even touch other men.
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