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THE WAY OF LIFE any work. He grows diffident of success in any enterprise. Such a man's mind is full of fears, despair and fickleness.
Excessive sexual passion ruins men as well as women.
From the Audience: What can we say to you? We feel shy to mention it. Now-a-days, we are looking for the methods by which we can increase our sexual passion. We believe that there is happiness in sensual enjoyments.
Maharajashri : Then you are proceeding on the path of ruin and destruction. You realise this great truth. Unless you control your senses to some extent, you cannot carry out spiritual austerities.
THE DIRECTION HAS CHANGED
I know that now-a-days, people have been developing the habit of eating and drinking harmful and prohibited things. People have been consuming prohibited things. They believe that the gratification of the sensual desires is everything in life. Our social life has been undergoing a change without anyone trying to change it. Artha and Kama have become the centre of human existence.
But at the same time you should also realise how unhappy, agitated and worried men are to-day. Probably, this has happened for the first time. For countless centuries, Dharma has been occupying the central position in the culture of our country. Artha and Kama were existing only as means not as ends. Therefore, in the past, people used to possess inner wealth. Great sadhus and saints travelled from place to place, from town to town, from city to city exhorting people to pursue the objectives of Dharma, Artha and Kama with a sense of propriety, proportion and balance and thus they bestowed upon people the benefactions of serenity, equanimity, felicity and patience.
Serenity is related to Dharma. Equanimity is related to Dharma. Patience is related to Dharma. Magnanimity and seriousness are related to Dharma. If Dharma occupies the centre of life, people can live with serenity and equanimity natu
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