For the past few months we have been hearing plenty of stories
on the media about AIDS and its dangers and how more and more
people are falling prey to it. I feel the primary reason for this
increase is not because people are falling to have protected sex
but instead its because the people of today are failing to take
into control the urge of lust in their bodies; they have instead
let lust take control of them resulting in the need for pornography
and then casual sex which finally leads to aids. Now at the age of
17,I too fall prey to lust not so long ago; Ive seen plenty of
phonographic materials on the Internet but what I saw through my
experience was that no matter how many hours of sexual contexts I
saw, I was never was able to satisfy the urge of lust in me. I
constantly wonder about this and was finally able to find answers
to my quires in the books of Hinduism which totally charged my
viewpoint of lust. Now Im sharing the knowledge I have gain in
here in hope that it will change some of your views too.
One verse was enough to totally change my view and at the same time
answer my question. I found it in the in the
Manu-smriti
Desire is never extinguished by the enjoyment of desired
objects; it only grows stronger like a fire fed with clarified
butter.Manu-smriti 2.94
This verse gave me a perfect answer to my question. All this while
I have been seeing hours of phonography in hope that it will
satisfy my lust but now I saw that no quantity of phonography, sex,
ect
will be able to do that in fact its only going to make me urge
for more and more until I get AIDS, Im sure not even that would
have been able to stop me ( seeing what is going on in Africa
today}
Krishna shares this same knowledge in
Bhagavad-Gita
Thus the wise living entity's pure consciousness becomes
covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never
satisfied and which burns like fire.Bhagavad-Gita
3.39
Krishna tells that lust is the perverted form of love and that is
why it seems that unlike other sins like anger, greed, envy and
jealousy, lust seems to be present in everybody. Krishna says
As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by
dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is
similarly covered by different degrees of this lust
Bhagavad-Gita 3.38
Learning the above knowledge arouse another question in me.
So how in the world do you control lust?
It turns out there is only one way to keep it under control and
both the Manu-smrthi and the Bhagavad-Gita agree on it.
Krishna says
Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the material
senses, mind and intelligence, O mighty-armed Arjuna, one should
steady the mind by deliberate spiritual intelligence and thus--by
spiritual strength--conquer this insatiable enemy known as
lust Bhagavad-Gita 3.43
Manu says
Those (organs) which are strongly attached to sensual
pleasures, cannot be restrained by abstinence (from enjoyments) as
by constant (pursuit of true) knowledge can. Manu-smriti
2.96
So it seem the only way to control lust is through the pursuit of
spiritual knowledge. Ever if you have no interest in spiritual
knowledge just the reading of it will help you control lust as
stated by Krishna, one can steady the mind by deliberate spiritual
intelligence.
Manu says it cannot be controlled by avoidances because even if you
dont physically do anything. Once you step into the trap of lust
your mind will constantly think about it creating all sorts of
illusions in your mind making you fall into the same trap over and
over again.
It seems much can be gained by the sacrificial of lust rather then
the persuasion of it. One thing is of course you wont get aids and
die a painful death, so try your best Ok?
Through the attachment of his organs (to sensual pleasure)
a man doubtlessly will incur guilt; but if he keeps them under
complete control, he will obtain success (in gaining all his
aims)Manu-smriti 2.93
If one man should obtain all those (sensual enjoyments) and
another should renounce them all, the renunciation of all pleasure
is far better than the attainment of them. Manu-smriti
2.95