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come to realize that the purpose of love and married life is not merely to derive comfort and pleasure. Rather, partners in a healthy and meaningful love relationship learn to expand their heart center, sublimate their sel sh demands for pleasure, and become endowed with increasing magnanimity, inspiration, patience, self-sacri ce and understanding. If they are able to accomplish this, they are promoting a mutual, spiritual upliftment towards higher levels of inner joy, and their union will be ful lling. If they do not, then their union is simply an external show and will not lead to any real satisfaction.
The In uence of Brahmacharya on Society
The ideal of brahmacharya does not regard sex as shameful or sinful, but considers it as a highly creative force that should be respected. The ideal of brahmacharya requires that your mind understands the implications and purpose of sex in your life. Sex can be a means to a more profound and deeper love if that energy is utilized towards spiritual upliftment. However, if a deeper love is not kept in view, then sexual relations become debilitating and degrading.
The misuse of sex implies a lack of brahmacharya. When sex is misused it can result in all types of vices and criminality. If a person is overwhelmed with sexual desires and those desires are not ful lled, the