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Circumcision is a
facility for sex life |
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I cannot
quote immediately from sastra, but psychologically we can
understand that there is no such things as Hindu religion, but
according to the Vedic sastra there is varna-asrama, the
religion of varna and asrama. The whole varna-asrama system
discourages sex life. Circumcision is a facility for sex life.
So in other systems of religion or throughout the whole universe
the tendency is to enjoy sex life, whereas the varna-asrama
system discourages sex life. Sex life is the cause of bondage of
the conditioned soul to remain in the material world. If one can
conquer over the sex impulses voluntarily, he conquers over the
influence of material nature. So the ideals being different, I
think in the Vedic system such circumcision is prohibited.
[S.P.
Letter to: Arvind Shah: Bombay 30 September, 1975]
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