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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
While in the case of human beings we are allowed to learn a particular way. If we are hungry, we wait till the food is served. We don’t try to go and grab it wherever it is. If there is an impulse towards sex activities or procreative activities, we have got to control it. We have to behave in such a way that it is socially acceptable. In this field God himself has given us certain amount of liberty, which again is misused. It is a freedom given to us here. Moksha at this level is granted to us already by God. But that freedom is misused as license by us. We do things as we like, not according to a particular order. The control over these impulses, which helps us to promote the extension of the body, is what God has given us. That is why people are capable of living longer. If we know how to control this, we know how to live longer. I won’t say that they live for millennia, but definitely I know they live longer. If we don’t know how to control these things we really fall. So this body is there with us. We are more slaves to this ethereal body than the physical body, because this body is taken care of by doctors who will give some medicines etc.. But who is to give medicine to this ethereal body? By birth He has given us the capacity to modify or regulate the cycles of urges which is something which no animal can get rid off. But our 148