--- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't "bal" just a plain old Hindi word for "life"?
> 
> G

Bal Brahmachari is a term used to describe someone who has been 
celibate from childhood. Guru Dev was described in this way, but at a 
later initiation by his guru was conferred the title of swami.
But sometimes a period of abstinence is also called celibacy - whereas 
baala Brahmachari is about life celibacy. So yes, in that sense you are 
correct.

> 
> --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > baala - young, childish, infantine, not full-grown or developed (of 
> > persons or things.
> > 
> > brahmachaarya - study of the Veda, the state of an unmarried 
> religious 
> > student, a state of continence and chastity.




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