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Question: Can I be Hindu and also have sex with my girlfriend (i.e. can I be religious and love sex too)?
Answer: The Hare krishna groups are very strict. For example, even for a married couple, sex is only permitted once a month, when pregnancy is desired. As soon as the woman is pregnant, sex must stop.
At other end of spectrum, are bhagwan rajneesh (osho) groups, which encourage even group sex and believe that you will "tire" of it eventually and become more "spiritual", "detached".
There are other Hindu groups which are not so strict. It all depends on how fast you want to achieve Liberation or moksha.
I personally wish I could be like Gandhi was and practice bramhachariya... but I am not ready yet
If you still have a great desire for sex... you will have sex... but you can still pray... read religious scriptures... worship... but you will keep being reborn again and again... but that is no reason not to worship ... pray... just because you have a weakness for sex...
Question: Can I have sex outside of marriage?
Answer: Well,there are even Homosexual men, who are Hindu in their beliefs. Anyone can worship God. but, lets put it THIS WAY. If someone were a heroine addict, injecting themselves with drugs, they could still be a Hindu and worship, but it is not ADVISED or ENCOURAGED to be a drug user. Whatever your situation, you may worship and it is beneficial, but some life-styles are more beneficial spiritually and others are less beneficial.
In fact, even in Christianity, if you visit an Episcopal Church, you will find pamphlets which encourage even sexually active Gay men and women, to receive Holy Communion.
So the Episcopal Church is one of the uniquely compassionate Christian denominations, recognizing Holy Communion as a medicine to cure our weaknesses, our illnesses.. not as a REWARD, for having become perfect, and sinless.
For example, if you want to go to the gymnasium and work out, but you Love to eat ice cream, well, you can still go the the gym and exercise, but you will not become an athlete AS QUICKLY as if you also stop eating ICE CREAM. But it is still beneficial to exercise EVEN WHILE YOU CONTINUE TO EAT ICE CREAM.
QUESTION: is it ok if I worship God and also worship sex.
Answer: If you find the right place, the right kind of Hindu group or B'ahai or Buddhist, wherever you feel most comfortable.... you see, you ask me "is that ok". Well, very few religious groups will say "YOU MUST HAVE MORE AND MORE SEX... with as many women as possible...etc etc... TO BE SAVED". You will find some religious groups who say "Oh, ... if you have lots of sex,.. outside of marriage... you cant come here.. you will go to hell".
But other groups say "Well, if you have lots of sex you may come and worship with us... but one day you should try to have less sex". But you will not find so many groups who say "Oh, you're not having enough sex, and you should be smoking and drinking more too... or you will not be saved...". You MIGHT find some group which says this, but they are a VERY STRANGE GROUP, and it is better to stay away from them.
You see, if you believe God is truly merciful, well, just like your Mother and Father, if they open your bedroom door and SEE engaged in sexual activity, they wont MURDER you or TORTURE you for all ETERNITY,.... right? No. They will just close the door, and go away and smile and say, "Oh, now he is a teen age boy and he feels the need to engage in sexual activity. But we still love him. Later, he will change, become different, more mature.
We must each make our OWN WAY,choose for ourselves the PATH, THE WAY. No one can
give us the magic answer, the magic solution. We must work, and suffer,
to find the path for ourselves.
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