1. PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYAM -4 Continued
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4. INTENSITY OF THE CRAVINGS IN DIFFERENT PERSONS-1. Continued
4.1- Passion in children, the youth and the aged.
Passion is in a seed state in young boys and girls. It does not give them any trouble. Just as the tree is latent in the seed, so also, passion is in a seed state in the minds of children.
In old men and women, passion gets suppressed. It cannot do any havoc. It is only in young men and women who have reached adolescence that this passion becomes troublesome.
Men and women become slaves to passion. They become helpless.
There is not much difference in sex between a male and a female, a boy and a girl, when they are very young. When they attain puberty, there is a drastic change.
Feelings, gestures, body, gait, talk, look, movements, voice, qualities and demeanour change altogether.
The whole mango tree—with all its branches, leaves and fruits—is contained in a subtle form in the seed. It takes time for manifestation.
Even so, the Vasana of lust lurks in the mind when you are a boy, manifests at eighteen, fills the whole body at twenty-five, works havoc from twenty-five to forty-five and then gradually declines.
Various forms of wrong-doing and mischief are committed by human beings between twenty-five and forty-five. This is the most critical period of life.
4.2 - Sexual thought in sages, spiritual aspirants and householders
To be continued ..
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