[FairfieldLife] yr query dt 4th Oct on Brahmcharya (celibacy)

[rama krishna]

Atman Robert,  Jai Gurudev!   This has refrence to yr query dt Oct 4th on Celibacy .   Both the Hindu and Tibetan spiritual practices lay a great emphasis on Brahmcharya(Celibacy). The Patanjali Yog Sutras also talks of importance of continence.      Here are some quotes from various sources:     -"Brahmacharya or spotless chastity is the best of all penances; a celibate of such spotless chastity is not a human being, but a god indeed... To the celibate who conserves the semen with great efforts, what is there unattainable in this world? By the power of the composure of the semen, one will become just like myself. "- Lord Sankara     "Caution in diet is of threefold value, but abstinence from sexual intercourse is of fourfold value. The Sannyasi had, and has a rule never to look at a woman. "- Atreya  
    "Let not a Brahmin see a woman naked." - Manu     "There is no doubt that people die prematurely by letting the semen out of the body; knowing this, the Yogi should always preserve semen and lead a life of strict celibacy." Siva Samhita     -"And those students who find that world of God through chastity, their is that heavenly country; theirs in whatever world they are, is freedom."   - Chhandogya Upanisad    -"A wise man should avoid married life as if it were a burning pit of live coals. From the contact comes sensation, from sensation thirst, from thirst clinging, by ceasing from that, the soul is delivered from all sinful existence."   - Lord Buddha    "These sexual propensities, though they are at first like ripple, acquire the proportions of a sea on account of a bad company. Whenever the mental image of a woman crops up in your mind with evil thoughts, repeat mentally "Om Durgaa Devyai Namah " and do mental prostrations."   - Swami Vivekananda    "Know that in this world there is nothing that cannot be attained by one who remains from birth to death a perfect celibate ..... In one person, knowledge of the four Vedas, and in another, perfect celibacy- of these, the latter is superior to the former who is wanting in celibacy."   - The Mahabharat    "All men and youngmen in particular, can experience the immediate benefit of chastity. The memory is quiet and tenacious, the brain lively and fertile, the will energetic, the whole character gains a strength of which libertines have no conception, no prism show us our surroundings under such heavenly colours as that of chastity, which lights up with its rays the least objects in the universe and transports us into the purest joys of an abiding happiness that shows neither shadow neither decline. "   - Prof. Montagaza      "This seed (semen) is marrow to your bones, food to your brains, oil to your joints and sweetness to your breath and if you are a man, you should never loose a drop of it, until you are
 fully thirty years of age and then only for the purpose of having a child which shall be blessed by heaven and really one of the inmates of the kingdom of heaven by being born again. "   - Dr. Molvil Keith M.D.       Chastity no more injures the body and the soul, self-discipline is better than any other line of conduct.   - Sir James Pagen    "It is a singularly false notion... the notion of imaginary dangers in absolute continence. Virginity is a physical, moral and intellectual safeguard to youngmen. "      Here are some links on
 celibacy:  http://sivanandaonline.org/graphics/ebooks/swami_sivanandaji/downnload/practice_brahmacharya.html     http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/flatto.htm     http://sivanandaonline.org/graphics/ebooks/swami_chidananda/DOWNLOAD/the_role_celibacy_Spiritual_Life.html     Regards 
 Rama krishna 
	
	
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