„What happiness is there to be
derived from
the string-tossed puppets of female bodies
composed of
joints, muscles, bones and flesh? Oh,
there will arise very fine
desires no doubt, for
women having soft tendrils of hair, if we
once
dissect (or analyse), with our minds, their eyes and
other
parts of the body into their components of
skin, flesh and blood as
well as tears, etc. The
breasts of females adorned with pearl-
garlands
and other ornaments, like unto the waters of the
Ganges
with its long waves flowing down from the
great Meru heights are
preyed upon (or enjoyed)
by bipeds like packs of dogs, licking balls
of
cooked rice strewn in the crematoriums in the
suburbs of a town.
Which person is there in this
world that will not be burnt like
straw when
exposed to the flames of females proceeding from
Agni
(fire), the sin and having darkness in the
shape of sable locks and
scalding men with their
eyes? The cool body of females (which one
enjoys)
serves as the dry fuel with which to burn him in
hell.
Dames with dark eyes are so many traps set
by Kama (god of desire)
to ensnare the ignorant
minds of men. They resemble also the bait of
flesh
strung in the angling noose of excruciating
torments in order
to lure the fish of men in the pool
of re-births replete with the
mud of the dire mind.
Oh, I will never long for the pleasures of
women
who are like caskets locking up within them
infinite miseries
and having, within them the gems
of the endless desires, hatred,
etc. If we begin to
analyse this body into flesh, blood, bones,
muscles,
etc., then all our desires towards females, said to
shine
with the moon s resplendence, will become
inimical to us in a short
time. Only he who has a
spouse (and tastes the conjugal pleasures)
lusts
after such an enjoyment; otherwise how can he feel
the
pleasures of conjugal life? If the lust of women
which is the source
of all enjoyments ceases, then
all the worldly bondage which has its
substratum
in the mind will cease. With the cessation of the
(conception of this) universe which exists only in
name, there dawns
the eternal Elysian bliss. This
lust of women which, being without
discrimination
is enchanting at a distance, craves always, even if
gratified, and flutters like the wings of a honeybee
and is hard to
be given up. Being afraid of the
terrible consequences it works,
such as diseases,
death, dotage and the mental and other pains, I
do
not long after it now. How without its
renunciation, can I
expect to attain the rare
Brahmic seat?‟
Existence - system of null-functions activated into partial non-nullity by ignorance.
The Void, of which it cannot be said that it is or is not, nor that it has consciousness or has none, while it denies absoluteness to any experiential value (alike to being and to consciousness) cannot be identified. And that is the doctrine of not-self (anatta) as I see it in one aspect at present. This voidness cannot be “is-ed” and so introduced into the worldly scheme, except as the denial of absoluteness of all particular values. It has no more effect on ordinary life than the theory of relativity. But just as that theory completely alters calculation of enormous speeds, so, as I see it, this void-element completely alters calculations of extraordinary situations, of death (as killing, suicide or the partner of old age). N.T