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the same offices and between such men and women naturally friendship and social intercourse will appear.
Maharajashri: That is why many evils and derogations have appeared in the lives of some of them. I would be happy if such people are noble in their conduct. Some such women have lost their chastity. They use such devices as will keep them free from social blame. The government has made contraceptive devices easily available. Who would refrain from using those devices to carry on illicit intimacies if they want to? If you want to observe the ordinary principles of grihasthadharma and if you want the flowers of humanity to bloom in your life, you must free yourselves from the clutches of the inner enemies. You must conquer your inner enemies. You must exercise at least a partial control over your senses,
EFFECT A LITTLE CHANGE IN YOUR WAY OF LIFE.
The atmosphere to day is so polluted with luxuries, pleasures and frivolities that it is not easy to control your sexual passion. I know this. But yet I say that if you make a determined effort, you can achieve control over your sexual passion. You have to effect a little change in your way of life and you have to extend your co-operation to the members of your family in their endeavour to conquer their inner enemies. If the members of your family extend their co-operation to you and if they join you in your endeavour to conquer inner enemies, you will attain success in your endeavour.
Just as the sexual passion is an inner enemy even anger is one. Anger is an enemy because it creates enemies for you. Anger destroys those whom it penetrates and influences.
I also agree that you cannot completely discard your anger but at least can you not consider anger as your enemy? I exhort you not to consider anger as your friend and not to receive it hospitably. If you give a place to anger in yourself deeming it a friend, your spiritual destruction is certain. Anger will destroy your body, your prosperity, your relations with others and your family
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