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man? How can one like touching something that is simply ‘filth’?
Questioner : But while touching whatever is being
discussed here does not come to mind.
Dadashri : Yes, but how will it ever come in mind? At
the time of touching, it is so poisonous that the veil of ignorance
covers the mind, the intellect, the chit, and the ego. Man becomes
unconscious while awake. He becomes like an animal.
If ever touching or any similar acts occur, come and tell
me and I will cleanse it right away for you.
If you indulge in thoughts of a woman or in thoughts of
sex, if you contemplate or meditate about them, a tuber of
sexuality will form. How will it then dissolve? Having thoughts
opposing sex will dissolve the tuber.
Once your vision towards a person turns and becomes
sexual then the indulgence begins. There is a reason behind it.
Behind that there are causes from the previous life. That is why
this vision of sexuality does not happen with everyone. It is only
with a certain person that it happens. If there were causes laid
in a previous life, and therefore an ongoing account continuing
in this life and then if indulgence takes place, then realize that
this is a large account and therefore be very vigilant. You will
need to keep on doing pratikraman towards that person. There
should be a lot of alochanas (heart-felt confession), pratikramans
(apology coupled with remorse) and pratyakhyans (resolve never
to repeat that mistake).1
This sex is such a thing that it does not let the mind and
the chit remain the way that they want to. And once they fall in
this trap of sex and believe that there is happiness there, then
the chit begins to go there even more and more by believing
that, ‘It is really nice here, it is really good here’, countless
numbers of new seeds are sown here.