Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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Celibacy
Celibacy
Questioner : Despite knowing the transient nature of sexual pleasure, what is the reason for such an intense desire for it? And how can it be brought under control?
Sexuality is not poison. Fearlessness in sex is poison. There is no problem in sex if it has to be done, as a last resort, just as if a policeman were to force you to do so. It should not by your own choice. Do you have any choice but to sit in the jail if the policeman puts you there? Is there any escaping from there? Similarly, you do not have a choice when karma unfolds its account and the act and thought of sex occurs in your mind, speech or body. Any religion that sanctions and allows sexuality is no religion. Religion exists where there is brahmacharya. No matter to what little extent religion is present, it must be. It must be free from all elements of sexuality.
Questioner : Yes, that is true, but shouldn't there be a means of going from one shore of sexuality to the other shore of brahmacharya?
Dadashri : Yes, for that there is Gnan. For brahmacharya you have to find the right guru. The guru must not have any element of sexuality in him. If the guru is sexual in any way, the entire following will go to hell. They would not be able to see human life again. Sexuality of any type does not suit a guru.
Dadashri : The world has not known the nature of sexual impulses and desires at all. It can be brought under control only if you know how it arises. But, you do not know under what circumstances they arise. Then how can it be controlled? No one can control it. A person, who appears to have control, it is actually the result of his prior life's deep inner intent for brahmacharya. Otherwise, the only way one can have control over it is if one finds the root cause of sexuality and puts a stop to it at that point. It is too late to try and stop it once the sexual impulse expresses as an effect. If you want to be free from all sexual impulses, I will show you the way.
Questioner : Gnan is a very critical and important thing for attaining freedom from sex.
Dadashri : Gnan is the only thing that will get rid of all forms of vishaya, entering into objects of enjoyment. These objects of enjoyment cling to you because of ignorance of the Self.
No religion accepts sexuality in spiritual matters. Those who accept and allow sexuality in spiritual path are on the wrong path, in fact on the path opposite of liberation, the path to hell. Such wrong and misguided paths and teachers did exist in the past, seeking the Self along with sex.
As hard as you try, no other approach, besides Gnan, can control vishaya. Sexuality will not stop with external locks'. I have seen some people who have even gone to the extent of locking up their genitals in their desire to curb sexual impulses but this does not work.
Questioner : Is that not a form of deterioration in religion?
Dadashri : Of course, it is deterioration, a severe one at that. These teachers do not go towards moksha and they do not let their followers go either. They go down in lower life forms and take their followers along with them.
All sexual impulses and desires fade in presence of Gnan. These brahmacharis followers of Dada here are free from even thoughts of sexuality.
Questioner : Psychology says that once you have had