Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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only then you should ask for the vow of brahmacharya, otherwise it is not worth asking for this vow. It is a tremendous sin to break the vow of brahmacharya after taking one. Nobody forces you to take this vow.
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A lifelong vow of brahmacharya cannot be given, in this day and age. It is a dangerous to do so. It may be given for a year. If one takes the vow of lifelong brahmacharya and if he fails then, not only will he fall, but he would also make me instrumental in his fall. Then if I am sitting next to the vitarag Lord in Mahavideh Kshetra, he will come there and bother me, 'Why did you give me the agna? Who told you to be over wise?' He would not let me sit in peace with the Lord. He will fall and he will take others with him. Therefore, you have to continue to hold the deep inner intent for brahmacharya and I will give you the strength to do so. Do not rush, make your wishes methodically. The faster you do it, more deficiency there will be in it.
If you take the vow of brahmacharya and follow it at its fullest, without errors, you would achieve a wonderful place in the world and attain moksha within one lifetime. There is tremendous power in the words of my agna of brahmacharya. The vow would not break if there were no weakness on your part. That is how strong the power of my words is.
Until then, severely test yourself to see if the inner intent is that of jagat kalyan, the salvation of the world, or is it to feed the ego of your false pride? It is possible to find out everything by testing your self. If this is being done to feed the pride and the ego, that too will dissipate in time.
If only one pure man is around in this world, then he alone is enough for the salvation of the entire world! For this,
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total absorption in the Self is needed, and nothing but the Self is asked for. Start by having a constant inner intent for salvation of the world only for one hour and at times if the link breaks, start all over again.
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When can you do the highest good for the world? It is easier when there is renunciation and the appearance of it. It is more difficult when one presents the appearance of the married. Even for the latter it is possible, but only a few will benefit. The public at large will not. Renunciation should be like ours, the kind that is devoid of the ego. And this conduct, which is attained by brahmacharya, is of a very high level.
The constant awareness of 'I am Shuddhatma', 'I am pure Soul', is the supreme brahmacharya. There is no other bhramacharya like that. Yet if one wishes to achieve the stage of an acharya, the level of an elevated spiritual master, then he would need external brahmacharya, the kind the world recognizes. Presence of a companion lady would not be accepted there.
By just giving up abrahmacharya, the whole world subsides effortlessly. By just following brahmacharya the whole world ends, does it not? Otherwise, you can give up thousands of things and yet not achieve anything.
By just acquiring the agna of brahmacharya from the Gnani Purush there is so much experience of bliss! You have yet to put it into practice and yet you already experience this bliss. Have you experienced such bliss?
Questioner: I have experienced it, Dada. From that very moment, everything became clear inside.
Dadashri : It became clear from the moment you took