Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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Celibacy
Celibacy
or gone.
Your attachment to the illusion of sex will disappear if you follow my agna. If you try to remove it yourself, it is so powerful that it will sabotage your effort. Therefore, instead of fighting to remove it, you should say to it, "Sit down, I will honor you". Then, by remaining detached and staying in the awareness of the Self, it will all dissipate and leave. This is the same as coming under the protection of Dada's agnas. [3] A Firm Decision Takes You Across To Final Safety
What is nischaya (determined decision)? Nischaya means, no matter how powerful attacks from an army of worldly difficulties arise, you would not back off. No matter how many different types of inner cravings you get within, you would remain firm. Once you have made a firm decision, you would not change it. That is called a nischaya.
Questioner : Who breaks our firm decision?
Dadashri : It is your own ego. It is the ego that is with attachment, the deluded ego.
Questioner: Is weak intent a weakness of firm decision ?
Dadashri : It is not a weakness. It is not a decision at all! Weaknesses can be removed, but here there is no decision present at all to begin with.
Questioner : If your intent for brahmacharya were not weak then would the thoughts of sexuality completely stop coming?
Dadashri : No, let the thoughts come. What is wrong with thoughts? The thoughts will never stop. We do not want any weak intent. There must be a strong opposition to the any sexual enticing within. How dare such thoughts arise?
If you make a man who has not slept for four days sit on the edge of a well, if he is determined not to fall into a well, he would not. He would remain awake.
You will succeed in achieving your goal of attaining brahmacharya with your absolute firm decision coupled with my agna, provided there is no wavering in that decision. My agna will guide you wherever you go and you must never abandon your vow, ever. If a thought of sex arises then keep on cleansing it (pratikraman) for half an hour at a time by saying, "Why are these thoughts still coming?' And never initiate the sexual look with anyone. He who wants to practice brahmacharya must not look with sexual intent at any one.
The slightest touch of the hand to a woman can shake this firm decision. It will not allow you to sleep: such are the atoms
What is nischaya? It is to stop all other thoughts and come onto only one thought. For example that you definitely want to go to the station from here and from the station you want to go by train and not by bus. Hence, if you make a firm decision, all the evidences for going by train will come together and make it happen.
If your decision is not firm then the evidences will not come together and your goal will not be accomplished.
Questioner : Does the timing change with firm decision ?
Dadashri : All the timings change with firm decision. This gentleman was saying, "I will most probably come, but you go ahead if I am not here on time. I realized that his was a hollow decision and hence evidences for him will be such that he may not be able to accomplish whatever he set out to.