3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

CHASTITY: BRAHMCHARYA 43with them for their spiritual progress. Contrarily, thosewho fall a prey to the allurements and do not heed thedivine counsel are hurled down into the abyss of degradation,and the same mind runs wild in that direction.So you understand the basic necessity of following thesacred impulse from the gracious Master Power in entertainingsublime thoughts."'Through passion, the soul can fall very low. The seatof the soul is high, between the eyebrows. And the seatof passion? Well, everyone knows where that is."'Lust attacks us eighty percent through the eyes, fourteenpercent through the ears and the remaining sixpercent mainly through touch. So how to maintain chastity?That's the point. You have just to control your attention.The mind and outgoing faculties derive theirpower from the soul, and the outward expression of thesoul is the attention. So if our attention is riveted at thecenter of the soul in the body and we make the best useof the outgoing faculties, we will not be affected by whatwe see or hear. You might be looking at somebody butyou need not be doing so with your full consci'ousness,even with your open eyes. Somebody might be relatinglong stories of vicious things to you. If you control yourattention, even with your open ears you won't hear.'''When you look into the eyes of somebody who dragsyou up and helps you to forget your body, that is a criterionof what love is. That is why I always advise,"Don't look into the eyes of others except the Master's."This is the way in which lust attacks us. We are attackedby lust through the eyes. If you look into the eyes of 0th-