necessary for renewing life. All man’s mental powers give him no chance of escaping the
time-linked process of birth, life, aging and death. For the propagation of the species, man
and woman have been provided with this creative power; and the sex act is a necessity.
You have viewed the topic from a thoroughly wrong angle. The very premise for your
theory is wrong. Immortality does not pertain to the physical body. Once born, a man has to die,
i.e., cast off the physical body. That state in which you freely enjoy the continuity of life without
entering the cycle of birth and death is immortality. Unless you identity yourself with that
Cosmic Self which transcends all limitations of space and time, you cannot enjoy immortality.
To identify and realize that Immortal Self, you should conserve and preserve every bit of energy
within you. There is only one energy within us which is able to do the different functions under
various forms. As you expect a long life to the machines you use by keeping them in a good
condition and doing the minimum work without allowing them either to rust or to waste, you
should maintain this body well-conditioned and have its life prolonged by conserving the energy
within. Without the body, how can you probe into the higher planes?
Please go through my translation of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. Practice the sort of
renunciation advocated by it. It does not require you to renounce family life. You have to live in
the world and learn through the world without becoming one of the world. Your duty is to
maintain the household, but not to get attached to it. Then and then alone will you have that
purity of mind which will enable you to progress on your path towards the attainment of
perennial peace, joy and bliss.
Enough of your wrong notions. Awake and understand your true imperishable nature.
Behold your true immortal, all-pervading Self and rest in it drinking the nectar of immortality.
Follow my instructions. You will be a thoroughly changed personality with inner spiritual
strength. Have faith and sincerity. Success is yours. Thou art That.
From "May I answer that" by Swami Sivananda (1987-1963). More Informations on Swami Sivananda: on the Website of Divine Life Society, Photographs of Swami Sivananda, German Pages on Swami Sivananda
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