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GARLAND OF KARMA YOGA
sex-sublimation. He will have no attraction for women He has thinned out the mind The mind is starved to death. It cannot raise its hood. It cannot hiss.
That Yogi or Jnani who has attained the highest Nirvikalpa Samadhi, in whom the seeds of Samskaras are fried in toto can claim to be a perfect Oordhavareta or one who has complete sex-sublimation.
The process of sex-sublimation is very difficult and yet it is most necessary for the aspirant in the path of spirituality. It is the most important qualification for the aspirant, either in the path of Karma Yoga, Upasana, Raja Yoga or Vedanta. You must achieve this at any cost. You will surely attempt this in some future birth. But why not now?
Brahmacharya is a fundamental pre-requisite for an aspirant If one has this qualification or merit, all other merits will cling to him All divine qualities will come by themselves.
The practice of celibacy is not attended with any danger or any diseases or any undesirable results such as the various sorts of 'complex' which are wrongly attributed by Western psychologists. They have a a wrong, ill-founded imagination that the ungratified sex-energy assumes the various forms of 'complex' in disguise, such as touch-phobia, etc. The complex is due to some other causes. It is a morbid state of mind due to excessive jealousy, hatred, anger, worry
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