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According to Wikipedia, the word lust is phonetically similar to the ancient Roman lustrum, which literally meant “purification”. This was the five-year cycle time for the ritual expiation of “sins” called the lustration as practiced in ancient Greek and Roman cultures, occasionally involving human sacrifice. Sexual intercourse was one of a list of sins requiring lustration. Another similar word existed in ancient Latin, lustratio.
“The Seven Deadly Sins”, written during the 5th century is a similar list of sins requiring expiation or forgiveness. These doctrines forbade even thoughts and desires for fornicatio (fornication), later generalized as luxuria (lust/lechery). The concept also was progressively embodied in debates about mandatory Clerical celibacy beginning in the 1st through 5th centuries and following. For example, Henry Charles Lea states that “Sixtus III barely admits that married persons can obtain eternal life” in his “Sacerdotal History of Christian Celibacy”. He also states, “Siricius and Innocent I ransacked the Gospels for texts of more than doubtful application with which to support the innovation “.


However, in the 11th to 15th centuries the northern European usage of the verb still meant simply “to please, delight;” or “pleasure”. A related form “lusty”, originally meant “joyful, merry” or “full of healthy vigor”.

The word "lust" began being used in the 16th century in the Protestant Reformation's early non-Latin Bible translations. This is despite the fact that the original Koine Greek Bible has no single word that is uniquely translated as heterosexual lust.
Today, the meaning of the word still has differing meanings as shown in the Merriam-Webster definition. Lust: 1. a: pleasure, delight b: personal inclination: wish 2. intense or unbridled sexual desire: lasciviousness 3. a: intense longing: craving a lust to succeed; b: enthusiasm, eagerness admired his lust for life.

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Lust is an emotional force that is directly associated with the thinking or fantasizing about one’s desire, usually in a sexual way.
In translations of the New Testament, the word “lust” is occasionally used as a translation of the Koiné Greek word, ‘επιθυμία’ – desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden.
Jesus Christ describing His own feelings using both of these word forms in Luke 22:15: “And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer”.
A man – a human being – without desire (lust) is a dead or mutilated one.


The dictionary may give us a quite wrong, misleading sense for the “lust” – a sense given mainly by religion and sustained by our own hypocrisy.

1. – intense sexual desire or appetite.
2. – uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire or appetite; lecherousness.
3. – a passionate or overmastering desire or craving (usually followed by for): a lust for power.
4. – ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish: an enviable lust for life.
5. – Obsolete. a) pleasure or delight. b) desire; inclination; wish.


In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna, an Avatar of Vishnu declared in verse 21, that lust is one of the gates to Naraka or hell.
According to Brahma Kumaris religion, sex lust is the greatest enemy to mankind and the gateway to hell. Followers do not eat onions, garlic and eggs as the sulphur in them can excite sex-lust in the body which is bound to celibacy in the Brahma Kumari doctrine. Physical sex is impure and leads to body-consciousness and many crimes. It poisons the body and leads to many diseases. The Brahma Kumaris teach is it like foraging about in a sewer. Students at the Spiritual University must conquer lust in order to go to Golden Age heaven on earth where children are created by power of mind for 2,500 years of peace and purity.
In Islam, intentional lascivious glances are forbidden. Lascivious thoughts are disliked, for they are the first step towards adultery, rape and other antisocial behaviors. But in Islam, “Desire for the opposite sex” is not forbidden, or even harmful, as it is natural.


In Judaism, all evil inclinations and lusts of the flesh are characterized by yetzer hara (יצר הרע). Yetzer hara is not a demonic force; rather, it is man’s misuse of the things which the physical body needs to survive, and is often contrasted with yetzer hatov. This idea was derived from Genesis 8:21, which states that “the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth”.

Few ancient, pagan religions have actually considered lust to be a vice. The most famous example of a widespread religious movement practicing lechery as a ritual would be the Bacchanalias of the Ancient Roman Bacchantes. However, this activity was soon outlawed by the Roman Senate in 186 BC in the decree Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus. The practice of sacred prostitution, however, continued to be an activity practiced often by the Dionysians.


In Sikhism, lust is counted among the five cardinal sins or sinful propensities (the others being anger, ego, greed and attachment). In common usage, the term stands for wanting to have sex and it is in this sense that it is considered an evil if uncontrolled in Sikhism.

Meher Baba described the differences between lust and love:
“In lust there is reliance upon the object of sense and consequent spiritual subordination of the soul to it, but love puts the soul into direct and co-ordinate relation with the reality which is behind the form. Therefore lust is experienced as being heavy and love is experienced as being light. In lust there is a narrowing down of life and in love there is an expansion in being…If you love the whole world you vicariously live in the whole world, but in lust there is an ebbing down of life and a general sense of hopeless dependence upon a form which is regarded as another. Thus, in lust there is the accentuation of separateness and suffering, but in love there is the feeling of unity and joy…”


Still, someone's heaven might be someone else's hell. And if lust is one of the gates to hell, you might be right at the gateway.
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