Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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of the female sex. Therefore, the act of touching must never take place, and if you were careful about preserving the purity of your vision, then your firm decision would not waver.
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Questioner: If a person's firm decision about practicing brahmacharya wavers, then is it because of the effect of the wavering inner intent of his previous life?
Dadashri : No, that is not the case. It is because his nischaya is not nischaya. He has not made a firm decision. This is not a result of previous life and this so-called firm decision that he had made, was done by watching others doing it. It wavers because it is done out of going along with others around him. Why don't you get married instead, what do you have to lose? At least you will help some girl get settled.
There can never be exception in brahmacharya because man's mind is looking for a loophole and wherever there is a slightest hole, the mind makes it larger.
Questioner: What tendencies (of the chit) are working within when a person searches for a loophole?
Dadashri: It is the mind that is working and not the tendencies of the chit. It is the nature of the mind to search for loopholes.
Questioner: How can one stop mind from looking for
loopholes?
Dadashri : With nischaya. A firm unflinching decision. How can it look for a loophole, if your decision is firm? If your decision is firm then nobody can find a loophole. Just like a person who has made a firm decision of not eating meat, will not eat meat.
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Questioner: So, should we have a firm decision in every matter?
Dadashri : A firm decision is what makes everything
work.
Questioner: After realizing the Self, does one need nischaya in relative matters?
Dadashri: You, the Self do not have to keep the firm decision, do you? You have to tell Chandresh to make the firm decision and preserve it properly.
If one needs to ask questions about this then he is searching for loopholes. Therefore, whenever there is a need to ask these kinds of questions tell him (Chandresh)' be quiet'. Tell him to 'get out' so he will become quiet. Everything will disappear the moment you say 'get out'.
How is it going with you?
Questioner: When such a circumstance arises some day, then one of the seeds of sex sprouts. But I instantly place the 'three-vision' on it.
Dadashri : Would one not die if he drowns in the river just once? Or would he have to drown daily to die? Is there any problem left if one dies by drowning in the river just once? Is the river going to lose anything?
Authors of scriptures have called a single act of abrahmacharya, a death. Die if you have to but do not lose brahmacharya.
If awareness does not remain when the force of karma unfolds, recite loudly, the sentences of Gnan to bring back the awareness and confront the karmas. That is called an