SELF INDULGENCE, WEATHER THROUGH ANGER, LUST, GREED, SELFISHNESS AND ITS SEEMINGLY BRIGHT EXCITING PLEASURES, APPERTAINS TO THE BLIND I-NESS OF MAN. SO THE GURU POINTS OUT THE GROSSNESS OF GOING HOG-LIKE AFTER SENSUAL INDULGENCE. BUT THE GURUS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SUCH TENDENCIES CAN NOT BE PUT DOWN BY MERE VOWS, BY SELF RESTRAINT OR BY MENTAL RESOLUTIONS, IF THIS WERE SO, VISHWAMITARA WOULD HAVE NOT RUN AFTER ‘MENEKA’ SO RESOLUTE A PERSONALITY, WOULD NOT HAVE CAUGHT A GIRL IN HIS ARMS WITH THAT INSENSATE IMPETUOUSNESS OF WHICH HE IS SO MUCH ASHAMED AFTERWORDS, THE MAN HAS NOT YET ATTAINED HIS MELLOWED, WISE, BEAUTIFUL AND SPIRITUALLY RIPE MANHOOD. HE IS STILL SO IRRESISTIBLY DRAWN BY THE “ANIMAL PLEASURES” THAT IS IN THE BODY OF ‘WOMAN’, AS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE WHOLLY SPIRITUAL PLEASURES THAT ARE IN HER LOVELY SOUL.

HOW FAR IS THE RELIGION OF THE SOUL FROM THOSE WHO GET SELF-HYPNOTIZED AND SEEK PLEASURES IN THE MERE BODY?

ONLY BY THE TOUCH OF THE GURU, SOUL CAN BE ELEVATED, PULLED UPWARDS TO THE PURE SPIRITUAL LOVE.