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inclination , then one should fast two to three times . When the force of unfolding karma is very strong , fasting can stop them . Fasting does not destroy these sexual passions completely .
[ 2 ] ‘ Three Vision ’ Stops Sexual Vision
Use the same experiment that I had used for myself . For me this experiment is constantly in place and it had kept me aware even before enlightenment . When my eyes fall on someone wearing beautiful clothes , a saree worth two thousand rupees , I become aware and my first vision see her without clothes . Then a second awareness arises and I see the body without the skin and then the third awareness arises and I see the intestines , the kind you see when the stomach is cut open . I can also see changes that occur within the intestines . I can see blood vessels ; I can see fecal matter etc . I can see all the refuse this way . Then there is no chance of sexual impulse arising , is there ? In all this , the Soul is the only pure thing and that is where my vision stops . Therefore how can any illusion over sex ever occur ?
Shrimad Rajchandra has said , “ All the miseries come to an end if you do not get deluded and see the pure Soul ( within all ).” We read in scriptures that you should not become attached to women but you forget this the moment you see a woman .
This is the illusion . It is a deluded view . If this illusion leaves , this view that ‘ I am Chandulal ’, and instead the right vision of , ‘ I am pure Soul ’, takes hold then all suffering comes to an end . Then the delusion will not happen and attraction will not occur .
Questioner : When a man looks at a woman and has sexual thoughts about her , is the woman also at fault , to some extent ?
Dadashri : No , the woman is not at fault at all . Lord Mahavir ’ s appearance was such that a lot of women were