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              Not by wearing saffron cloth, not by restricting food and other
          sense activities, not by living in the forest, not by discussing
          philosophy, and not by observing a vow of silence, but only by even
          the slightest beginning of devotional service to the lotus feet of
          Lord Govinda, who enjoys pastimes on the Yamunä’s wide banks,
          is Kämadeva stopped. (Çré Rüpa Gosvämé’s Padyävalé)

              The  brahmacäré should completely renounce the following
          eight things—his lust, anger, greed, desire for sweets, sense of
          decorating the body, excessive curiosity (interest in mundane
          things), excessive sleep, and excessive endeavor for bodily
          maintenance. (Néti-çästra 11.10)

              One single object (a woman) appears in three different ways:
          to the man who practices austerity it appears as a corpse, to the
          sensual it appears as a woman, and to the dogs as a lump of flesh.
          (Néti-çästra 14.15)


              Women     completely    destroy   spiritual   life.  (Çréla
          Prabhodänanda Sarasvaté)


              Quod omne animal post coitum triste est.
              Every animal is sad after sex. (Aristoteles)


              Love, in the form in which it exists in society, is nothing but the
          exchange of two fantasies and the superficial contact of two bodies.
              Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort (1741-1794)


              The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates
          and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and
          inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called
          Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits
          which succeed it.
              Henry David Thoreau (1817–62), U.S. philosopher, author,
          naturalist. Walden, “Higher Laws” (1854).
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