whirlpool around us

Sex and sexuality are indeed the foundational root for the entire worldly life; to understand this and to bring it into experience is not that easy. This is because in this era of the time cycle, the entire world has believed that pleasure to be the highest pleasure. But in reality, that is indeed an illusion (bhranti). Societal influence (loksangnya) means that whatever people have believed there to be happiness in, if we too believe there to be happiness in that, that is societal influence. People have believed there to be happiness in money, cars, weddings, so we too believe there to be happiness in that. People have believed there to be happiness in receiving respect (maan), so we fall into the ‘race’ for respect. People have believed there to be happiness in sexuality, so we also get stuck on sexual pleasures. ‘He did this, so I will do it too; I am doing this, so he is doing it too.’ The reality of the world is that every human being is passing through pleasant and painful experiences, but one understands the true form of worldly life implicitly, and it torments him within, but he is not able to say it as it is. After creating havoc in the home, and then crying, he then washes his face and calms down, as if nothing happened at all! Fed up with the wife at home, he shows off outside! Such are this pretentious world’s copycat worldly interactions! No one has taught the right thing at all. Although the parents have gotten married and experienced pain (of marital life), they will still not give their son the right advice. Each person is set on his own ulterior motive. Why are you getting him married? He will say, “My reputation will be established.” Hey, but just think, are you to establish your reputation, or get your work done for liberation? Due to ignorance, humans get tangled in the whirlpool of sexuality through societal influence. What is this societal influence, how does the societal influence of sexuality get picked up, how do the tendencies of the chit (inner faculty of knowledge and vision) get scattered, how do opinions about sexuality become strengthened through societal influence, how does societal influence of sexuality arise? Loksangnya (societal influence) is a very simple, straightforward word, but how far does it go? In a very deceptive way, it throws one off track. Societal beliefs flash in every facet of our lives, and we choose directions based on the compass of societal influence. That is enormously perilous.

In the eyes of the world, the highest pleasure is believed to be in the sexual act, and we have gotten the analysis of this through the perspective of people of the world. We have never heard, have never known the analysis of sexuality through the perspective of the Gnani Purush. If we were to understand the nature of sexuality through the perspective of the Gnani Purush, then we would disengage from the murchhit (a state of unawareness arising from illusory attachment) pleasure of sexuality, and move towards the eternal bliss of the Self. On the one hand, the belief of pleasure in sexuality has become solidified through societal influence, and on the other hand, the eradicator of this is Akram Vignan, which shows the true nature and consequences of sexuality, as it is. It gives the right understanding of the belief of happiness in sexuality, opinions based on societal influence, and how to come out of it. Brahmacharya-related speech that permanently uproots our foundational root of sexuality has been enclosed in the present collection. Our prayer is that, through the study of this, the compass in mahatmas’ lives will not be societal influence, but the perspective (sangnya) of the Gnani!