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vacuum. The moment you give up sexual passions another passion
sets in.
Questioner : This anger-pride-attachment-greed that you
talk about, where does sex come in it? What does sex come
under these passions?
Dadashri : Sex and kashaya (anger-pride-attachment-
greed) are different. Indulging in sex and crossing its limits is
called greed.
[3] Importance of Brahmacharya
Questioner : Which is better, practice of brahmacharya
from childhood and unmarried or practice of brahmacharya after
getting married?
Dadashri : Brahmacharya since childhood is entirely a
different thing. But what are child brahmacharis of today like?
The times are bad these days. If you read about their life, you
would get a headache right away.
I will show you the way to practice brahmacharya if you
want to. You have to follow that way. It is not mandatory for
you to practice brahmacharya. This will only happen if your
karma effects are there in this regard. To take a vow of
brahmacharya and preserve it will occur only if your previous
karmas are such. It can be preserved if your deep inner intent
(bhaav) from previous life was so. The other way to preserve
brahmacharya is based on your unflinching determination to
do so.
Your unflinching determination (nischaya) coupled with
the energy and power of my words (vachanbud), which is always
there, will preserve brahmacharya.
Questioner : The charged karmas that have come with
this body from past life, cannot be changed, can they?