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pleasure and you will start expecting your partner to carry out such
unnatural acts too. The way you look at the opposite sex will
undergo a drastic change and you will gradually move very far away

from reality.

Many a time, people are misguided into believing that masturbation
leads to relaxation. Whenever they want to get away from stress and
tension, they try to seek an escape through such acts. In this manner
a lot of people develop the habit of doing it before sleep. The root
cause of all these habits is misconception and naivety. Don’t be
swayed away by what you see and hear. ‘Don’t let the words of

others consume you. If we are stressed about something then we
have to find out the root of the problem and cut it off. We cannot
seek shelter in artificial ideas forever. If you want to relax then get
some sleep, exercise or watch some sports. But to attach the idea of
relaxation with any such activity that drains your energy is just a

delusion.

Imagine a situation in which you are fighting against an enemy who
has the powers to drain your energy as soon as it comes in front of
you. Your only option is to kill this enemy immediately because once
it faces you, you will be left with no powers of your own and it would
be too easy to kill you. This is exactly how unnecessary sexual

thoughts are—you have to kill the very first thought that flashes in
your mind. If you think more about it, it will become so powerful that
it would not be an easy task to control it. When you get deeply
immersed in such thoughts of pleasure, and start imagining
unrealistic situations, you invite the thoughts to come and control
you. You are giving them the power and influence they have on you.

If you put oranges inside a juicer, you will get back orange juice. The
juicer cannot give back milkshake or chocolate shake. Similarly, if
you give wrong input to your body then the output that you will
receive will also be wrong. If you keep looking at vulgar images and
watch porn, then how is it possible to get saintly thoughts? Stay
away from those friends of yours who talk about such things.