”Practice of Brahmacharya”
(Sri Swami Sivananda Ji)
”Section 3 – Techniques Of Sex Sublimation”
15. To Marry Or Not To Marry
Nature of the love between husband and wife
When your wife is young and beautiful, you admire her curly hair, rosy cheeks, fine nose, shining skin and silvery teeth. When she loses her beauty on account of some chronic incurable malady, she no longer holds any attraction for you. You marry a second wife.
Had you loved your first wife with Atma-Bhav, had you a comprehensive understanding that the Self in you and in your wife was the same, your love for her would have been pure, unselfish, lasting, undecaying and unchanging. Just as you love old sugar-candy or old rice the more, so also, you would love your wife more and more, even when she becomes old, as you have Atma-Bhav through Jnana. Jnana only will intensify Prem and make it lasting. …
From "Parables of Rama" Granth –
(Swami Shri Rama Tiratha Ji)
THOUGHT POWER
152. The Way to uplift the Dead or the Living
(A Lady who wanted to save her husband)
(Contd…)
When we approach a telephone apparatus and apply it to your ears, we hear something; we know that the sound does not come from that steel apparatus but from the friend behind the scenes or at the other end. Similarly, when you see the picture of your departed husband before you, realize that this picture has the Divinity behind it; tell it, (You are Divinity, you are God). This way you can save your departed husband. If we can save and raise and help our departed friends, we can no doubt save, raise and help our living friends by the same method.
MORAL: The way to help and uplift the dead or the living is to bring their picture before the mind and infuse it with the thought of Divinity. …
