Before you do any wrong action, I already know that you are going to do it! Then why do I not prevent you? It is my secret. The secret of my work is, though I know everything, I do not interfere. The fact is, you should have this lust, but you should do your utmost not to fall prey to it. You should put up a fierce fight, and though defeated a thousand times, you should again be ready to continue to fight it.
Were I to wish it, I could destroy the lust in you in no time. But what would be the use of destroying it? In the end, it will be I who destroys it. In the meantime, continue with the battle inside yourselves. This is the law; it is necessary. Then joy will come in defeating lust. Without a struggle, there is no pleasure in fighting. The real pleasure lies in success after so many defeats. Wars won without obstacles, without sacrifices and untiring effort, afford no pleasure. This should be a life and death fight! Lust is there to be fought. It is a lifelong struggle. It will harass you to the end of your days. It should be there to fight you, and you should always be alert and ready for battle.
He who has love for and faith in me will try doubly hard to obey me. If you touch any woman [inappropriately], tell me immediately; this is one remedy. Another is to think that in your last birth you were a woman and had connections with a man; now you are a man and you want connections with a woman. You have had enough satisfaction in previous births. What is to be had by more lust?
Foremost, you should try to get rid of lust, as all other vices are on account of it. For instance, if a parrot's throat is cut, it dies. But if its wings are clipped, it does not die; after some time the feathers of the wings grow back. Lust can be compared to the parrot's head. Therefore, when lust is still present and we conquer other evils, such as anger, the evils again revive — everything rises out of the head. But if lust is killed once and for all, every other evil is also destroyed — you have cut off its head.
Yet, in truth, lust is necessary for evolution.