Flashes of Inspiration: Good read on morality of love

It was in the mid-1980s, I joined The Island newspaper as Deputy Features and Culture Page editor. At that time prominent journalists were working for the paper. Most of them are or were Editors in Chief of various English language papers and some of them turned academics.   
It would be of interest to the readers to know the names I could recollect. I worked there for eight years.   
Vjitha Yapa (Editor in Chief), Gamini Weerakoon (Deputy and News Editor) the late Ajith Samaranayake (Editorialist, Lobby and all-rounder), Eriq Narayana (Features Editor), Rohan Abeywardene (Business Editor) Anton Weerasinghe (Sports)- they were 
all heads.   

Others who joined were Lalith Alahakoon, Lakshman Gunasekera, Prabath Sahabandu, D. B. S. Jeyaraj, the late Lasantha Wickramatunge, Rajpal Abeynaike, Qadri Ismail, Suresh Mohammed, Hana Ibrahim, Zanita Careem, Rohan Gunasekera, Dilrukshi, Rosemary, Sulochana, Vijita Amarasinghe, Roy Silva, Fahima, Badri, Ruwan Godage, Candappa, R. .S Karunaratne, Malkanthi Leitan, Vivie Marie, Lal Medawattegoda, and several others whose names I find it difficult to bring back to memory.   
The late Wijesoma and Amirtha Abeysekera were notable personalities.   
Later some of them left and were replaced by newcomers.   

One of these great conglomerations of varied talents was an unassuming, cool, quiet, philosophic and widely read journalist and teacher named R. S. Karunaratne. Because of common interests, I befriended him. I lost contact with him for some time as he was working for the other dailies in the country.   
When he worked for the Evening Observer and later at the Daily News, he welcomed my articles. He is now an English grammarian, freelance columnist and author of books.   
One of his books is called Flashes of Inspiration- a collection of worthwhile reading essays filled in 96 pages. There are 25 essays in this fascinating book.   

Before I come to the essays, I liked most in this collection, I want to add that on his own admission, he has a passion for English literature, Western Classical Culture, Philosophy and Psychology.   
Apart from The Island, he has worked for the Daily Mirror, Sunday Observer and Ceylon Today. Kalabooshana R. S. Karunaratne is also a Justice of Peace. He holds a Bachelor’s Special Degree in Mass Communication and Diploma in Psychology. He served as a visiting Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Kelaniya, Visiting Lecturer in English at the University Jayewardenepura, London Business School and the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka and visiting lecturer in Journalism at the Sri Lankan Foundation.   
I wish to quote excerpts from one of his essays which may interest you.   

Protect your marital virginity is the subject.   
“According to some authorities, marital virginity is more precious than the original. In fact, another authority says that your first act of infidelity is more dangerous than your first love affair. This is so because you stand to lose so much after an act of infidelity... Many women do not realize that extra-marital sex is a real threat to their marriages. If you think that sex is only a biological function, you are far from the truth. It has split up so many marriages and women and chidden have to bear the brunt of it, fidelity.   
Most married women fall prey to flattery. Men would call them angels until they win their attention, if you fall for such words, you will find yourself in hot water. Even the men who approach them with charming words and expensive presents are themselves married with children. They will talk of body chemistry and magnetism, but they do not know the real meaning of love. These affairs and adventures are not based on real love. They are based on infatuation…these are not jottings of a moralist but of a realist.”   
A good read.