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be, then on that day the children would be sleeping in another
room. These are the values of the parents. These days, the
bedrooms are here and there. Plus they have double beds, do
they not?
In those days, no man would sleep in the same area
where a woman was sleeping. There was a saying, in those
days, that if a man sleeps whole night with a woman, he would
become a woman. Her female nature would influence him. So
no one did this. It is some smart person who discovered about
sleeping together so that double beds keep selling. This has
been the cause of the downfall of people. What has one gained
from this downfall? All the contempt for the females has
disappeared. Now it would not take long to make the ones
who have gone down to go up.
How can there be double beds in Hindustan? What types
of animals are they? The men and women of Hindustan were
never together in one room. They always stayed in separate
rooms. But instead, look at it nowadays. Nowadays the father
himself makes the bedroom with a double bed for his son. And
so they take it for granted that this is the practice in the world.
I have seen all this.
If men left the company of women and stayed away from
them for fifteen days, they would become like God.
What is unaccompanied ‘shaiyasan’? [shaiyasan = shaiya
(bed) + asan (seat) ] It means that you do not share your bed
or your seat with anyone including the opposite sex. There is no
physical contact between husband and wife. The writers of
scriptures used to believe to the extent that if you sit on the
same seat that an opposite sex was sitting, then you will be
affected by him or her, you would have thoughts about them.
Questioner : What form of karma is bound from sexual
interaction and sexuality?