Story of a gardener

Story of a gardener

Once there was a gardener. He spent all his time, energy and wealth in developing a floral garden. In the garden varieties of multi-colored flowers were grown. He gathered the flowers and extracted a wonderful perfume. And what did he do next? He poured the perfume into a sewer. Don't you think that only the gardener is foolish? Most of us are like the stupid gardener. The semen accumulated in the body over a period of 15 to 20 years up to our early youth, plus what we go on collecting in cycles of 30 to 40 days that could have been transmuted into Ojas to give bodily strength, vigour and radiance, is dissipated for enjoying fleeting sexual gratification. Thus many of us are not less stupid than the gardener of the story. Certainly the gardener would have not repeated the mischievous action after knowing his folly through someone's instructions, but the people are repeating their folly of sex-indulgence over and over again (even after getting instructions from scriptures and saints). For a momentary pleasure a person falls a prey to the sexual act blindly driven by passion. After the heat of the passion has subsided, a person feels drained of all energies. The energy that is wasted during one sexual intercourse, tantamount to the energy that is spent in physical labour for 10 days or the energy that is utilized in mental work for three days. Still one repeats the same folly without realizing that it does not provide lasting happiness. On the contrary, it results in terrible harm to health and wastes the precious vital fluid accumulated over a period of 30 to 40 days.