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attracted to Menaka and spent 10,000 years enjoying her. Then he lost the
power he had obtained from his austerities. He realized his mistake and he
told her " No I don't want your child, and I don't want you, get lost". He
pushed her away and then started again on the austerities gaining great merit.
Then he went to Sage Vashishta's ashram. And he told him, "Look I have
become great in austeritie. Now you have to proclaim that I am a Brahma
Rishi=self realized soul". Vishishta says, "No you are not a Brahma Rishi" to
test him. Then Vishwamitra got angry and cursed Vishishta. With that single
curse he lost all the power.
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The moral of the story is that sexual enjoyment is much less harmful than
anger. Whereas lust has taken 10,000 years to remove his power, his anger
removed it in one instant. That is the difference. That is why they say if you
are practicing sadhana =sincere devotion, and you get angry you are not
making headway. The signature of being on the proper path is that you must
remain unperturbed by anger or fear. It is then that you are really on the way.