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PART TWO
Section One
The Keys of Brahmacharya For Married People
[1] Fearlessness In Sex, Not Sex, Is Poison
This science of brahmacharya will liberate anyone, and is
applicable to even married people. The following of the agna of
the Gnani Purush is required. Somebody with a false pride may
say, 'I want to marry another one'. To this I would say that have
to be capable of it. People in the past had multiple wives.
Emperor Bharat had thirteen hundred queens and he still attained
total liberation. Would he have attained moksha if the queens
represented any obstruction? Then what is the obstruction to
liberation? It is ignorance of the Self.
Sex is not poison, but fearlessness in sex is poison.
Therefore, do not be concerned. All the scriptures have said it
aloud that sex is poison. How is it poison? Can sex ever be
poisonous? It is fearlessness in sex that is poison. If sex was
poison then, for all you householders and married people, I
would have had to come and push you out to the Jain
monasteries where you would be forced to avoid sexuality of all
kinds. But do I need to drive anyone?
The Lord has separated all living beings into two divisions;
those who are in this worldly life and those who are liberated.
Those who are liberated are called the siddha and the rest are
sansari, involved in mundane worldly life. Therefore, if you are
an ascetic, a renunciator, you are still a sansari just as much as
the married householder. So, do not worry. Worldly married life
is not an obstruction to liberation, sexual interaction is not an
obstruction to liberation. It is ignorance of the Self that is the
obstruction. That is why I have written; that sex is not poison,
fearlessness in sex is poison.