Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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Celibacy
Celibacy
second. Within next second it will get you in its strangle hold and within the third second you would be strangulated.
If there is no account from the previous life, then even a simple touch will not occur. Even if a man and a woman were to spend a long time alone in one room, not a single thought or impulse of sexual nature will arise.
Questioner : You said that attraction occurs because there is an account between the two. Then how can one get rid of that account before it unfolds?
Dadashri : That can only be done if it is done at that very moment it occurs. It cannot be done in advance. The moment a thought like, 'Let me reserve some space next to me for a woman', arises in your mind, you must get rid of it right away. "What is the intention', see that as soon as it happens. You have to recognize the intention behind that. Is it in line with your principle of brahmacharya or is it contrary to it? If it is contrary to your principle, uproot it and throw it away instantly.
Questioner: I do not want to touch anyone, but what should I do if a girl comes and touches me?
Dadashri : I see. What would you do to a snake that wants to touch you? How can one like touching a woman or a man? How can one like touching something that is simply 'filth"?
Questioner : But while touching whatever is being discussed here does not come to mind.
If ever touching or any similar acts occur, come and tell me and I will cleanse it right away for you.
If you indulge in thoughts of a woman or in thoughts of sex, if you contemplate or meditate about them, a tuber of sexuality will form. How will it then dissolve? Having thoughts opposing sex will dissolve the tuber.
Once your vision towards a person turns and becomes sexual then the indulgence begins. There is a reason behind it. Behind that there are causes from the previous life. That is why you do not look sensually towards everyone. It is only towards certain people that you do. If there were causes laid in a previous life, and a pending account continuing in this life and then if indulgence takes place, then realize that this is a large account and therefore be very vigilant. You will need to keep on doing pratikraman towards that person. There should be a lot of alochanas (heart-felt confession), pratikramans (apology coupled with remorse) and pratyakhyans (resolve never to repeat that mistake).
This sex is such a thing that it does not let the mind and the chit remain the way that they want to. And once they fall in this trap of sex and believe that there is happiness there, then the chit begins to go there even more and more by believing that, 'It is really nice here, it is really good here', countless numbers of new seeds are sown here.
Questioner : But he has brought all that from his previous life has he not?
Dadashri : His chit's repeated going there is not something that he has brought from his previous life. But afterwards he loses control over his chit, when it keeps slipping from his hands even when he does not want to go there. That is why it is better
Dadashri : Yes, but how will it ever come in mind? At the time of touching, it is so poisonous that the veil of ignorance covers the mind, the intellect, the chit, and the ego. Man becomes unconscious while awake. He becomes like an animal.