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borrowed happiness. It was a loan to you. And a loan means
that it has to be paid back. You will have no problems once it
has been paid back.
[4] The Enjoying Sex Is Not A Discharge
There was a Maharaj, Jain teacher, who used to say a lot
about sex in his spiritual talks but when the topic of greed came,
he would not say a word. Some intelligent person wondered
why he never talks about greed? He talks about every topic
except money. He went to the Maharaj and without his
knowledge he opened his small bundle. He saw that there was
a gold coin in his book, so he took it and went away. When the
Maharaj opened the bundle he discovered that the gold coin
wasn’t there. He looked for the coin but he could not find it.
Next day Maharaj started talking about greed in his discourse
and that one must not be greedy.
So if you are involved in sexuality, then it will start leaving
you if you start talking about it, because you have started
opposing sexuality in your mind. The mind’s vote on sex is
different from yours. The mind realizes that you have become
an adversary and so it’s vote will not carry any weight. But
people do not say anything about sex because the deceit of sex,
continuance in sex, exists within them. Also it is not easy to talk
openly against sexuality.
Questioner : Some people think that there is no
importance of brahmacharya whatsoever in Akram Vignan. They
say that everything in Akram including sexuality is only a discharge.
Dadashri : This is not the meaning of Akram Vignan at
all. Anyone who thinks like that has not understood ‘the path
of Akram’ at all. If he has understood then I would not have
the need to say anything about sex again. The path of Akram
means that discharge is considered as discharge. But for these