Continence and its creative power

Jagadiswarananda

All great mystics and the majority of great idealists, the giants among the creators of spirit have clearly and instinctively realized what formidable power of concentrated soul, of accumulated creative energy is generated by renunciation of the organic and psychic expenditure of sexuality. Even free thinkers in matters of faith , even such sensualists as Beethoven, Balzac, and Flaubert have felt this.