suggestions regarding being careful to invest in sastric

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Dandavats BVS Jaya Prabhupada.

 

 

I applaud your reprint of "Brahmacarya". Will the revisions be extensive?

I think the sloka Ayus tejo balam viryam in the Sivananda book is

commendable for inclusion.

 

Possibly some other things can also be added from that book, after all

mayavadi or Vaisnava, brahmacarya is varna, and a situational positive

sadhana lifesytle in either sect.

 

I also appreciated Sivananda's mention of the act of sex as causing a

"sanskara" which he defined as an indelible leasion on the consciousness,

which is difficult to remove (only by intense sadhana he says).

 

Dusvapna, (lusty bad dreams at night) can also be further re-inforced by

dusmriti, inauspicious memories of previous physical encounters with any

member of the opposite sex.

 

One congregational boy recently told me he was haunted by Dusvapna-memories

of the subtle (and not so subtle) sexual advances of some unscrupulous

members of the opposite sex within his own relations also, so even in Indian

society now-a-days, (devoid of the protective barrier of sadhu-sanga) this

problem is very much there.

 

In Hari Bhakti Kalpa latika, the author refers to this (and the subsequent

embarassment one feels afterwards) specifically as, "duspuris ca mano rathir

avaratir aksipto ceto 'nisi"

 

 

Also include this in there: from Celebaco.zip madan mohan (MG) gave.

 

An extract from Dr. Siegmeister:

 

"`You eject the substance of the synovial fluid. You send

forth, to gratify a moment's passion, the very material of which

the brain is made. This is a fact which you will acknowledge when

you consider that all this semen is the material of which all

these substances are made and supplied, and when the semen is

ejected you have selected the best part of the body to go out and

become to you a useless inert mass, which can never be restored

to you under any circumstances. It is lost and gone. Then, the

semen being out of the body, the sexual penalty comes apace. The

penalty for this loss of semen is so far reaching and so

concealed from the body of people of the present day that we do

not know the exact spot to look for it. But we tell you, when you

see paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, rheumatism, brain softening, bent

shoulders and haggard face; when you observe a young old man and

the dried up young lady, in all of these cases, and in dozens of

others, you may set it down that there have been sexual losses

and a waste of the bodily substance from the sexual organism.

 

"`You will see this penalty all around you, and there is no

place where you may go but you will see the fruits of this sexual

indulgence to excess. The penalty may be denied, and all these

diseases may be attributed to every other cause under the sun,

but you will be right in laying it at the proper place, and that

is to the sexual drain which has sapped the blood corpuscles of

the victim before you. We assure you nothing can be so very

enervating as this sexual excess, and any sexual mating is an

excess, providing it is not for the purpose of having children.

 

"`The penalty for the disobedience of this law is in the

shortened lives and the increased amount of disease which are

everywhere around us."

 

Dr. Siegmeister arrives at the same conclusion Srila Prabhupada has

instructed us, i.e. sex if at all indulged in should only for the

procreation of Krsna-conscious children.

 

I thank Madan-mohan and nayana-Ranjana who kindly contributed.

 

Your servant,

MMDASBR dasa br.

 

ys MMDASBR