Do not be very familiar with any woman...

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O aspirants! Do not be very familiar with any woman. You should not

sacrifice a noble ideal of life for the sake of pleasing a bewitching woman.

Think of the composition of the body. Keep the mental image of the dead body

of a woman or a skeleton whenever passion troubles you.

 

Have you ever paused and considered what constitutes the basic' ladies who

excite lust in you? A bundle of bones, flesh, blood, urine, faecal matter,

pus, perspiration, phlegm and other dirt! Will you allow such a bundle to

become the master of your thoughts? Will you exchange your birthright of

eternal peace and happiness for such a fleeting, filthy mess of pottage?

Shame on you! Were your will, your reason and your discrimination given to

you only for such an inglorious end? Have you not heard and seen that

physical beauty is only skin-deep and at the mercy of every passing

accident, illness and year?

 

Sivananda