Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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Dadashri : It is a wrong philosophy to combine practice of brahmacharya and eat onions, garlic or potatoes. This is contradictory to brahmacharya.
Questioner : Are these three food items avoided for practice of ahimsa, non-violence or is it for some other reason?
Dadashri : These three food items greatly incite sexual impulses and lead to abrahmacharya. These rules have to be followed in order to preserve one's brahmacharya.
[13] The Science Of Brahmacharya What is brahmacharya? It is the life force of the body (non-self). What is the ultimate essence of the food we eat and drink? Brahmacharya! If this essence, brahmacharya disappears, then the foundation of the relative self to the pure Self becomes unstable and loose. And then the exact experience and attainment of the Self becomes very difficult. Therefore, brahmacharya is a critical spiritual practice. There is no end to bliss if there is Gnan on one side and brahmacharya on the other. Then it brings about an unbelievable change. It is because brahmacharya is the life force and the essence of the body.
What happens in the stomach to all that you eat and drink?
Questioner : It is converted into blood. Dadashri : What happens to that blood? Questioner : The blood is converted into semen.
Dadashri : Really! Do you understand what semen is? The blood is converted into semen and then what happens to that semen? Do they not talk about seven elements of the blood? From one of these elements bone is formed, from the second
flesh is formed, and so on until the last of all to be formed is semen. Semen is the essence of the body. Just as clarified butter, ghee is the extract of milk; the essence of food is semen.
The essence of worldly life is moksha and the essence of the body is semen. All the things in the world are by nature draining down. Semen is the only one that will rise if you want to. Therefore the seeds of intent for the energy of the semen to rise higher towards spiritual and ultimately the Self should be sown.
Questioner: If I stay in this Gnan then would it rise up naturally on its own?
Dadashri : Yes, and this Gnan is such that if you remain in Gnan, you would not have any problems, but when ignorance of the Self arises, this disease of sexuality arises. You have to maintain awareness at that time. There is endless violence in sex. There is not as much violence in eating and drinking.
Scientists and all the other people of the world say that semen and ovum both drain down by nature. This is true, but it happens because of ignorance. In Gnan, they rise. This is the power and the energy of Gnan. Where there is Gnan, there is no sexual impulse.
Questioner : What happens when the energy of the Self (atmavirya) expresses?
Dadashri : The power of the Self increases significantly.
Questioner: Then what is the connection between energy of the Self and awareness?
Dadashri : Awareness is considered a part of the energy of the Self. Absence of this energy of the Self means the presence