Meher Baba The spiritual teacher Meher Baba stated that "[F]or the [spiritual] aspirant a life of strict celibacy is preferable to married life, if restraint comes to him easily without undue sense of self-repression. Such restraint is difficult for most persons and sometimes impossible, and for them married life is decidedly more helpful than a life of celibacy. For ordinary persons, married life is undoubtedly advisable unless they have a special aptitude for celibacy".Baba, Meher (1967). Discourses. 1. San Francisco: Sufism Reoriented. pp. 144–45. . Baba also asserted that "The value of celibacy lies in the habit of restraint and the sense of detachment and independence which it gives"Baba, Meher (1967). Discourses. 1. San Francisco: Sufism Reoriented. p. 145. . and that "The aspirant must choose one of the two courses which are open to him. He must take to the life of celibacy or to the married life, and he must avoid at all costs a cheap compromise between the two. Promiscuity in sex gratification is bound to land the aspirant in a most pitiful and dangerous chaos of ungovernable lust."Baba, Meher (1967). Discourses. 1. San Francisco: Sufism Reoriented. p. 146. .
meher baba the spiritual teacher meher baba stated that "[f]or the [spiritual] aspirant a life of strict celibacy is preferable to married life if restraint comes to him easily without undue sense of self-repression such restraint is difficult for most persons and sometimes impossible and for them married life is decidedly more helpful than a life of celibacy for ordinary persons married life is undoubtedly advisable unless they have a special aptitude for celibacy"baba meher (1967) discourses 1 san francisco sufism reoriented pp 144–45  baba also asserted that "the value of celibacy lies in the habit of restraint and the sense of detachment and independence which it gives"baba meher (1967) discourses 1 san francisco sufism reoriented p 145  and that "the aspirant must choose one of the two courses which are open to him he must take to the life of celibacy or to the married life and he must avoid at all costs a cheap compromise between the two promiscuity in sex gratification is bound to land the aspirant in a most pitiful and dangerous chaos of ungovernable lust"baba meher (1967) discourses 1 san francisco sufism reoriented p 146 