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Subject: [FairfieldLife] yr query dt 4th
Oct on Brahmcharya (celibacy)
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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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.
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Chastity no more injures the body and the soul, self-discipline
is better than any other line of conduct. - Sir James Pagen
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"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:
Regards
Rama krishna
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