foever77
July 20th, 2009, 05:34 AM
This might be of interest to some people. This is a text from India about lust. How feel that if you don't have lust then you will do the right thing sexually.
The Jnaneshwari is a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita written by the 13th century Saint of India, Jnaneshwar.
Here is a section of the Jnaneshwari about lust:
(Bhagavad Gita Quote)
"Whosoever, relinquishing the prescribed ways of the Shastra, acts under the promptings of lust, he does not achieve success, nor happiness, nor the Highest Goal."
(Commentary by Jnaneshwar)
And (there is) that self-destroyer (stealer), who does not like all this and who reclining (and thus supporting) his head on passion and other demerits, defies the fatherly Vedas, which are uniformly kind to all and which are the headlights, showing what is (wholesome) to one's advantage and what is not. He who shows no respect for the mandates of the Scriptures, neglects his own interests, and goes on indulging the senses; he who never lets go his grip on Passion, Wrath, and Greed keeps his promise (word) with them and who wanders freely through the jungle of unrestrained way-ward conduct- such a one does not a get a single drop of water (to drink) of the river of liberation, what to say then of (the bliss of swimming in) the river itself, which he cannot enjoy even in a dream. He cannot have the enjoyment even of the ordinary, common objects of the world; what then of enjoyments pertaining to the other world (from which he is definitely excluded)? Getting deluded at seeing a fish (on the surface of the water) a Brahmin dives in with the greed of catching the fish; but instead of catching it he only incurs the risk of losing his own life: in that way, on just tries hard for the attainment of the other world, solely out of temptation for the enjoyment of the sense-objects; but while so striving, death snatches him away somewhere else (before his desire is satisfied). in short he gets neither Heaven's nor this world's enjoyments; what then of securing liberation? Therefore, one who on account of the strength of desires, strives for the enjoyment of the sense-objects, gets neither the enjoyment nor the Heaven, nor yet can he ever expect to have salvation.
The Jnaneshwari is a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita written by the 13th century Saint of India, Jnaneshwar.
Here is a section of the Jnaneshwari about lust:
(Bhagavad Gita Quote)
"Whosoever, relinquishing the prescribed ways of the Shastra, acts under the promptings of lust, he does not achieve success, nor happiness, nor the Highest Goal."
(Commentary by Jnaneshwar)
And (there is) that self-destroyer (stealer), who does not like all this and who reclining (and thus supporting) his head on passion and other demerits, defies the fatherly Vedas, which are uniformly kind to all and which are the headlights, showing what is (wholesome) to one's advantage and what is not. He who shows no respect for the mandates of the Scriptures, neglects his own interests, and goes on indulging the senses; he who never lets go his grip on Passion, Wrath, and Greed keeps his promise (word) with them and who wanders freely through the jungle of unrestrained way-ward conduct- such a one does not a get a single drop of water (to drink) of the river of liberation, what to say then of (the bliss of swimming in) the river itself, which he cannot enjoy even in a dream. He cannot have the enjoyment even of the ordinary, common objects of the world; what then of enjoyments pertaining to the other world (from which he is definitely excluded)? Getting deluded at seeing a fish (on the surface of the water) a Brahmin dives in with the greed of catching the fish; but instead of catching it he only incurs the risk of losing his own life: in that way, on just tries hard for the attainment of the other world, solely out of temptation for the enjoyment of the sense-objects; but while so striving, death snatches him away somewhere else (before his desire is satisfied). in short he gets neither Heaven's nor this world's enjoyments; what then of securing liberation? Therefore, one who on account of the strength of desires, strives for the enjoyment of the sense-objects, gets neither the enjoyment nor the Heaven, nor yet can he ever expect to have salvation.