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certain ways of living, which he calls cultured ways. Don’t behave like that they say, you are animal don’t try to be like that. While that is so, in majority of the cases people have followed, now present day civilization seems to be moving in another direction of trying to have as much as what we want to satisfy these urges. I don’t want to go into value systems because that is not the topic. The topic is how are we going to control these things? However much we try, there are occasions when you fall for these and of course these you just can’t help it. Water is something that you will be forced to take and perhaps there is no difficulty in taking it and this one also, kama and krodha, you know you become slaves to it. That is why extraordinary attention has been given to it in tradition and they say you must know how to control these. Consequential feeling that you get is, when you are asking for some drive satisfaction, you find others also are striving towards the same thing and there is a conflict and it leads to rage, anger, confrontation. When more than one person tries for the same object then naturally confrontation and that is what we generally express as krodh. One is the kam, another is krodh
So these two things are the essential factors we have got to control and they seem to be inbuilt in our animal nature. All my previous discussion is only to point out that we seem to be conditioned by these two things almost. Animals are conditioned we know that, we also seem to be having no option over this. Other systems of yoga have tried to totally abolish these things by whatever means it is - suppression, oppression, by way of privation or deprivation, you can use any method by which they try to see that you get away from the family, go away to forest, go and stay in some mountains, get far off from the man, don’t get into the situations, try to be away as far away as possible but this system is meant for a grihastha, for a man living here, a family life and these two things are the most important drives that you have got to attend to and you will not be in a position to suppress it, you are not supposed to also. So we always ask here try to learn moderation. Let the impulsiveness go and let some sanity be there. The institutions of marriage were established only for this. Social solutions like the institutions of justice were maintained only for this, so that we won’t come out. What are the individual solutions for this? To conform to the social institutions. You know better what our reaction to social institutions is today. We are trying to question every one of them. We don’t want to stand by the judgment of some judge who says you are at fault,