Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.

 

Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.
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l. 1516.

 

James Thomson

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The sex-energy is the greatest power of the mind and the body. This is the supreme strength in the human body, embodying all powers and assuming all forms. The mind and the body receive their strength and life from this sex-energy. Instead of allowing this Shakti or energy to become the gross seminal fluid, it is to be conserved, it is to be converted into a form of subtle energy called “Ojas” and thus made a source of spiritual life instead of the cause of physical death. With the extinction of sexual desires, the mind is released of its most powerful bond. Sex-energy moves towards two main directions, viz., one is downward and the other is upward. It takes the downward course in the form of gross sexual enjoyment; but when one tries to observe Brahmacharya (celibacy) in thought, word and deed, it takes the upward course. When the sex-energy always takes the downward course in a person, such a person becomes weak mentally and physically. From such a man or woman we cannot expect anything great and original. Sexual life dissipates the powers of the mind and the body.

 

Swami Narayanananda

 

The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below!

 

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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

 

Charles de Montesquieu

 

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

 

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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar
But bind him to his native mountains more.

 

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