PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYAM - CH-5.1
18/10/2018 CHAPTER- 5.1 Wet dream and voluntary copulation—A vital difference A sexual act shatters the nervous system. The whole nervous system is shaken or agitated during the act. There is excessive loss of energy. More energy is wasted during coitus. But it is not so when emission occurs during the dreaming state. In a wet dream, it may be the outflow of the prosthetic juice only. Even if there is loss of the vital fluid, there is not much draining. The actual essence does not come out during wet dreams. It is only the watery prosthetic juice with a little semen that is discharged during nocturnal pollution. When nocturnal emission takes place, the mind which was working in the inner astral body suddenly enters the physical body vehemently in an agitated condition. That is the reason why emission takes place suddenly. The night discharge may not stimulate the sexual desire. But a voluntary copulation, in the case of a sincere aspirant is highly detrimental to his spiritu...