Strong temptation
Question
Master,
It has been 10 months of yoga and brahmacharaya, yet there is a very strong craving for woman and sex and looking at women and enjoying masturbation. I do not know what to do. Temptation attacks me even though I've thought it would go away after 6 months of practice. Temptation is becoming stronger and stronger, and I feel like I may fail in this practice. Why? Am I doing something wrong? Why will god allow me to fail in this practice? Have I not been sincere? There is a very strong desire to spill the rethas and the prana that has been collected over many months and waste it.
Answer
1. First let go of tracking time. Snub the Ego, which has no better work than to say "I have done this many and that many months/years of practice". Let that false 'I' be kept at bay.
2. It is one's own past karma, which manifests as experiences. Hence one's right ends at efforts to dissolve such past karma. The rest, HE takes care. So one has to accept HIS will, knowing all that happens, happens for good.
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)