Normally it is at puberty, early adolescence days that sex harmones are released and the children behave erratic. After some time, the regulation of harmones is induced and the children are directed towards studies, sports and other activities. There may be some cases of children being spoiled due to bad company, may be due to lack of control or supervision by elders. However, a better life is awaiting those who are properly educated and trained for some avocation.
Sex plays a limited role in life, may be, about 3 to 5 percent of our life time! This may come as a surprize to many who are obsessed with sex and go on talking right into their old age and unto death. In fact, sex by itself is not bad. It is sex obsession that is bad. It is the vasana, sexual urge that is prompted by constant sex thoughts and memories of sex that haunt a person till death. The reason for this is just food and nothing else. Such an obsession is common amongst the ignorant people since they are revelling in thoughts, ideas, and talks of sex, day in and day out. We can say people talking about sex and making jokes and enjoying. Sex is an obsession since it is a pastime for many and it has lost all sanctity. But, definitely it is different- it is one thing to think and talk, and another to walk into the trap of sexual indulgences due to these thoughts, ideas and urges. Indian culture prohibits exhibitionism, talk and overt indulgences in open about sex and attaches great sanctity to sex.
Vatsayana has given the code of sexual life and has given dos and don'ts. It is a ritual, yajnya- putrakameshti yajnya. It is for progeny, prosperity and propagation of life. In fact, it is extremely difficult and dangerous to approach a woman according to Vatsayana. The sex is bound with marriage and any promiscuity is a sin. Sex is forbidden before marriage and the code, shastra, dictates when and how to carry on the rituals. Any freedom in matters of sex, svechha, free indulgences, lead to dangerous consequences, to the extent of destruction of the moral fabric of society and heralds doom. It is warned, that promiscuity will lead to immorality and way-word life, a life of adharma. It produces bastards, off-springs that are cruel, mentally and physically retarded. There are anecdotes in Upanishads to narrate how harmful for mankind it is to indulge in sex without any care for the consequences. All the unwanted disastrous consequences, anishta prarabhda, occur due to free sex. Sex should be limited to marriage within family life and only for the purpose of begetting progeny and nothing more! One male and one female issues are advocated in the shastra, too. But, who cares is the attitude. The result of free sex is already there to see. Unstable marriages lead to wreck of young lives. Lack of sex education leads to this situation; however, efforts are being made to educate the youth. Moreover, the thriving business of pornography, human trafficking, and flesh trade have become a such a profitable trade world over that even the responsible people who should stop this too are encouraging these nefarious activities openly or tacitly. The result is suffering, misery and doom of humanity.
Sex plays a limited role in life, may be, about 3 to 5 percent of our life time! This may come as a surprize to many who are obsessed with sex and go on talking right into their old age and unto death. In fact, sex by itself is not bad. It is sex obsession that is bad. It is the vasana, sexual urge that is prompted by constant sex thoughts and memories of sex that haunt a person till death. The reason for this is just food and nothing else. Such an obsession is common amongst the ignorant people since they are revelling in thoughts, ideas, and talks of sex, day in and day out. We can say people talking about sex and making jokes and enjoying. Sex is an obsession since it is a pastime for many and it has lost all sanctity. But, definitely it is different- it is one thing to think and talk, and another to walk into the trap of sexual indulgences due to these thoughts, ideas and urges. Indian culture prohibits exhibitionism, talk and overt indulgences in open about sex and attaches great sanctity to sex.
Vatsayana has given the code of sexual life and has given dos and don'ts. It is a ritual, yajnya- putrakameshti yajnya. It is for progeny, prosperity and propagation of life. In fact, it is extremely difficult and dangerous to approach a woman according to Vatsayana. The sex is bound with marriage and any promiscuity is a sin. Sex is forbidden before marriage and the code, shastra, dictates when and how to carry on the rituals. Any freedom in matters of sex, svechha, free indulgences, lead to dangerous consequences, to the extent of destruction of the moral fabric of society and heralds doom. It is warned, that promiscuity will lead to immorality and way-word life, a life of adharma. It produces bastards, off-springs that are cruel, mentally and physically retarded. There are anecdotes in Upanishads to narrate how harmful for mankind it is to indulge in sex without any care for the consequences. All the unwanted disastrous consequences, anishta prarabhda, occur due to free sex. Sex should be limited to marriage within family life and only for the purpose of begetting progeny and nothing more! One male and one female issues are advocated in the shastra, too. But, who cares is the attitude. The result of free sex is already there to see. Unstable marriages lead to wreck of young lives. Lack of sex education leads to this situation; however, efforts are being made to educate the youth. Moreover, the thriving business of pornography, human trafficking, and flesh trade have become a such a profitable trade world over that even the responsible people who should stop this too are encouraging these nefarious activities openly or tacitly. The result is suffering, misery and doom of humanity.
Sigmund Freud and Alfred Jung are supposed to be authorities on sex in the Western psychology and they have clearly stated that 'sex is an inseparable part of life'. But, this is not so in Indian culture. Sex in Indian culture is restricted to the extent of getting an off-spring, progeny for promoting family lineage. But, sex these days has become almost like breakfast and dinner! We will not discuss these aspects any further.
The spiritual life is asexual. Children are not thinking about sex while playing together. So also, old people engaged in discourses of spiritual texts, epics and shastras. This asexual form life, one of asceticism, comes only after one takes to vanaprasthashrama and sanyasa after leaving the family life. The famous upanishad account of Sage Yajnyavalkya and his wives Maitreyi and Katyayani is very famous. The sage takes the permission of his wives to leave the family and take to full time meditation, However, Maitreyi insists to know why it is necessary to leave the family. When the sage explains the goal of life and the path of salvation, Maitreyi also wants to follow him and take to ascetic life. Vanaprasthashrama is the state when the individuals live alone in secluded place like caves, forests, or mountains totally devoted the meditation and attain to higher level of consciousness. However, there is no need to go out if conditions for meditation in seclusion is possible within the family surroundings.What is important is meditation without disturbance for longer duration with total focused attention (chitta ekagrata).
The result of ascetic life is wonderful. It brings enlightenment. It brings supreme bliss, happiness and joy in old age. the persons who take to meditation in a secluded pace will achieve tejas. The retas that was flowing downward earlier, begins to flow upward and converts it to ojas (shakti). This ojas becomes tejas,'Light' Such a sage is tejomaya, an embodiment of Light. Thus, the purpose of being born a human is attained. The human becomes the divine.
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