Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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Celibacy
Celibacy
Questioner : Are the various practices of yoga like deep breathing, pranayama etc., helpful in practicing brahmacharya?
Dadashri : It can be helpful if it is done with the intention of practicing brahmacharya. The intention should be one for practicing brahmacharya. If your intention were to improve your health then it would improve your health. Therefore, it depends on your intent. But do not get involved in all this; otherwise your Soul would be left behind.
When the vow of brahmacharya has been taken and something unusual happens, then one becomes uneasy and confused. One boy was uneasy so I asked him, "Why are you so uneasy?' He told me that he was shy of telling me something and so I told him to write it on a piece of paper and give to me. He said, 'I have wet dreams two to three times a month. I said to him, "Oh dear, why are you so scared of telling me just that? You do not intend for it to happen, do you?" He told me emphatically that it was not his intention. So I informed him that if his intentions are pure, then it is still considered brahmacharya. He wanted to know why it should happen. I asked him that if it was not just an emptying of what has being filled. Whatever was filled will be discharged. Make sure that your intent does not get spoiled in this. Preserve this purity of intent. Do not believe that there is pleasure and happiness in this discharge. If any one here were confused and uneasy, I would clarify it right away.
If you get involved in a sexual impulse, then the stock of semen from within would exhaust and drop and go down. There it will accumulate and then get discharged very quickly. But if that thought that has arisen as a result of the sexual impulse is uprooted and thrown away as soon as it comes, then the semen will not exhaust and therefore will not go down. It will rise to
a higher level in the spiritual realm. There is tremendous science going on within.
Questioner : As soon as the thought arises?
Dadashri : The moment the sexual thought arises. It may not discharge but it has already separated inside for discharge. It is no more part of the body. It is ready to be discharged.
Questioner: If one does pratikraman once it has been separated for discharge, then is it still possible for it to rise higher?
Dadashri : What happens when you do pratikraman? It shows that you are detached from it and that you do not have anything what so ever to do with it.
The effects of karma, brought forth from past life, are bound to discharge. Sexual thought will arise. Any encouragement given to it renders the semen virtually lifeless and then somehow or the other it will find its way out to be discharged. If the semen gets retained, and there is not a single thought of sex, then the energy of semen will rise. It expresses as the energy of words spoken. The one who practices brahmacharya gains everything. It manifests in his speech, in his intellect and in his understanding. In abrahmacharya the words do not take hold or blossom. They are useless. It is only when the energy of the semen rises that the speech is of top quality and all the other energies express. All the veils of ignorance are destroyed.
Otherwise I have already called sex and sexuality a refuse. All that forms within is happening for the sole purpose of the toilet and excretion.
When does a sexual thought arise? It does so when you see someone, an attraction occurs and then the thought arises.