Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha 1.20—Awkwardness of Adolescence
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2017-08-26

This series is classified Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga | Turīya | Sahasrāra-cakra

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“Having passed his childhood, the boy gladly steps into youth with hopes of gaining his objects that tend only to his ruin. At this time the unconscious youth feels the wanton inclinations of his loose mind and goes on falling from one tribulation to another. He is overcome like one subdued by the power of delusive Kāmadeva, the God of Desire lying hidden in the cavity of the heart. His ungoverned mind gives rise to loose thoughts like those of voluptuous women, piercing his heart like dangerous weapons in the hands of children. Vices of the most heinous kind overcome persons of materialistic mind in their youth, and lead them to their ruin.” — 1.20.1-5

“Bad habits acquired in youth, upsetting good sense and having no value of approved behavior, cause copious mistakes in life. The raging fire in the hearts of the young caused by separation from their mates, burns them down like trees in a wildfire. As a clear, sacred and wide stream becomes muddy during rains, so does the mind of man get polluted in his youth. It is impossible for him to get over the boisterous expanse of his youthful desires. O how one’s youth is worn out with the thoughts of his mistress, her swollen breasts, her beautiful face and her sweet caresses! The wise regard a young man afflicted with the pain of soft desire as no better than a fragment of straw.” — 1.20.16-21

“As youth advances to its highest pitch, so the feverish passions wax stronger for our destruction alone. As long as the delusion of youth lasts, fiends of passion rage in the desert of the body. A foolish man who ignorantly rejoices at his transient youth, flushed with pride and filled with errors, soon comes to repent. Those who have safely passed over the perils of youth are great-minded men honored on earth. It is hard to pass over our youth that is so full of vices and waves of passion. It is very rare to have a happy youth, filled with humility and spent in the company of respectable men. Such youth is distinguished by feelings of sympathy and is joined with good qualities and virtues.” — 1.20.36-43

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