The the following talks, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi outlines a very simple but powerful teaching, that of wakeful-sleep or Jagrat-Sushupti (Jagrat means the waking state, Sushupti means deep dreamless sleep). You will know in due course that your glory lies where you cease to exist.Deep sleep is Brahman – the three states according to the Birhadaranyaka Upanishad with commentary by Shankara “The ego is a very powerful elephant which cannot be brought under control by any creature less powerful than a lion, which, in this instance, is none other than the Guru, whose very looks make the elephant-like ego tremble and die. The spiritual quest must be kept up right through a fast if it is to benefit spiritually. Complete fasting makes the mind too weak. There must be spiritual development side by side. Ramana Maharshi : Yes, but it is temporary. Question : Can fasting cure sexual desire? Be the Self and then you will have no sex troubles. Ramana Maharshi : By rooting out the false idea of the body being the Self. Question : How do we root out our sex idea? When the mind is destroyed, the other desires are destroyed also. If a man has a strong desire for the higher life then the sex tendency will subside. Ramana Maharshi : The householder’s life is not a bar, but the householder must do his utmost to practise self-control. Question : Is marriage a bar to spiritual progress? Ramana Maharshi : What is the use of that ? If it exists in the mind, what use is it to force people to abstain ? Question : At one of the Indian ashram there is a rigid rule that married couples are permitted to live there on condition that they have no sexual intercourse. Then there is no question of desires any more. Ramana Maharshi : A true brahmachari is one who dwells in Brahman. Question : Do you approve of sexual continence? Ramana Maharshi on Sexual Sin and Sexual Desires
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