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about what this body is made of? The amount of love a hog has
for a sow is greater than the amount of love a man has for his
wife. Can you call this love? This is nothing but beastliness. True
love is that which never increases or decreases. All this is nothing
but infatuation.
The sexual act gratification is nothing but eating garbage.
It is refuse of the whole world. How can this be food for the
Soul? The Self has no hunger, and no need for any external
thing. It is absolutely independent.
The whole world is engrossed in an illusionary enjoyment.
It is not a real enjoyment. Yet people believe it to be so. If sexual
pleasure was to be analyzed it would lead to severe nausea.
This body turns into ash, and then a new body is formed
from the atoms of this same ash. This is the result of ashes from
endless lives of the past. It is nothing but refuse. And sex here
is the refuse of all refuse. It is the same old ash and the same
old atoms merging together. Even cooking utensils once
washed, will look cleaner the next day. But what if you ate in
the same utensils over and over without cleaning them? Is that
not eating filth?
Say if you ate some delicious pudding, how would it look
if it were vomited? Would it look pleasing enough for you to
hold it in your hand? Even if the bowl was nice and clean and
the pudding was delicious when you ate it. But if it were vomited,
no matter what happens, you would not eat that vomit. And yet
this other vomited stuff is taken in again. But this kind of
awareness is absent. This is the illusion.
Amongst the objects of the five senses, that of the tongue
is the only correct and acceptable one. All others fool you. This
is the only acceptable indulgence, the one of the taste of food.
What would a good quality alphonso mango taste like? Within