We Hindus are mostly not aware about our good heritage. And, hance we lack an appreciation of our good values. One such exemplary attributes of Hinduism is celibacy. Hindu children were brought up under the glare of celibacy as our motto up to the age of 25 years. Our role model was known as ‘Brahmacharya’ and we had an immense faith that a clean and restrained sex life up to 25 years will bestow great powers on us. Hindu girls were expected to follow suit up to their marriageable age of 16.
Compare life in the West where no restraint is advised. Both girls and boys are free to indulge in sex from the age of puberty. Promiscuity has become a big problem in the West with the resultant sexual diseases. Pornographic literature is also available inevery newsagents. We know sex is the most common weakness of humanity.
Hinduism has suffered from slavery for thousands of years from 1000 AD to 1947 under Muslim and British rule and then under the Nehru/Gandhi dynasty misrule for sixty years up to 2014. All evidence goes to show that discipline and restraint is required in every field of human endevour, be it eating, drinking, sleeping, working or sex.
Pran C Aggarwal MA FCA
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