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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
12. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS
A true Brahmachari only can cultivate Bhakti. A true Brahmachari only can practise Yoga. A true Brahmachari only can acquire Jnana. Without Brahmacharya no spiritual progress is possible. Therefore I have given below practical methods to get success in Brahmacharya
Wet-dreams generally occur in the last quarter of the night Those who are in the habit of getting up from bed between 3 and 4 a.m and doing Japa, Pranayama and Dhyana can never fall victims to nocturnal pollutions.
Brahmacharis should entirely give up betel-chewing, cigarettes, tobacco, snuff, tea and coffee Tobacco produces nicotine poisoning, tobacco heart (irritable heart), nervous diseases and tobacco amblyopia (eye disease).
That man in whom the sex-idea is deep-rooted, can never dream of understanding Vedanta and realizing Brahman even within one hundred crores of births.
Narada says in his Bhakti Sutras. “These (sexual) propensities, though they at first are like ripples, acquire the proportions of a sea, on account of bad company"-Sutra 45. Therefore shun evil company.
Looking at a woman will create a desire to talk to her. Talking with a woman will create a desire to touch her Eventually you will have an impure mind
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