Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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Celibacy
Celibacy
it will be clean and then you are free of everything.
Questioner: Once the seed has been sown, it will bring forth its fruit, will it not?
Dadashri : The seeds are sown! It will bear fruit, but as long as the roots have not taken a firm hold, there will be some change in the intensity of the fruit. Therefore, before death one can change the result to come, and be cleansed of it.
That is why we say to a person who has a lot of sexual faults, or any other faults, to fast on Sunday and keep thinking about the faults and cleansing them whole day. If this is done with my agna, the faults will decrease.
Questioner : How do we do samayik-pratikraman for matters related to sexual indulgence and impulses?
Dadashri : You have to do pratikraman for all the mistakes that have occurred till today and make a firm decision not to repeat those mistakes in future.
Dadashri : No. That stock is there and will remain for a very long time. It will remain for about tens of years, but you have to persevere to remove it all.
Questioner : This science of uprooting the two-leaf sapling of sexual thought, is it such that on doing this sincerely one will win and attain lasting brahmacharya?
Dadashri : Yes, but sex is such a thing that if you get involved in it, you will loose the awareness of the Self. Therefore, this tuber is harmful. When the tuber of sexuality sprouts the result is the sexual impulse, and it is like a two leaf sapling. Generally the impulse is so strong that one becomes engrossed in it, becomes one with it. This engrossment is called vishaya. It cannot be called vishaya, without being engrossed in it. There should be so much awareness, when this tuber sprouts as a sapling of sexual impulse, that if you uproot and discard it, just like discarding the thought as soon it arises, you would not become engrossed in it. Then it will not touch you. Then the tuber still exists and may sprout again and again when the circumstances are right. When the tuber is finally gone, dissolved, no impulses of sexuality will arise within, and your goal of brahmacharya will be attained.
Questioner : What if we keep seeing the same mistakes over and over, when doing samayik?
Questioner: So, the relation of attraction does not exist once the tuber of sex is dissolved?
Dadashri : Ask for forgiveness as long as you keep seeing mistakes. Ask for forgiveness, do repentance and pratikraman with remorse over it.
Questioner : Just now when I sat in samayik, why did I keep seeing the same things over and over again?
Dadashri : That will come, as long as those atoms are still there within you. What problem does that cause you anyway?
Questioner : Does it mean that they keep coming because they have not been cleansed properly?
Dadashri : That interaction will stop. The relationship between a 'needle' and a ‘magnet' would stop. This relation is only there because of these tubers of sexuality carried over from past life. Sexuality is gross, overt and of the body, whereas the Self is beyond anything. It is very difficult to maintain this awareness and therefore engrossment in sex is bound to occur. It is only the Gnani Purush who can continuously maintain this