Brahamacharya Celibacy with Understanding

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

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Celibacy
Celibacy
If we've gone to somebody's wedding, do you not see a lot of attractive human beings of both sexes? Would you not have made about a hundred sexual transactions without your knowledge. That is how it is all. It is not your fault. This happens to all the human beings. They are drawn to anything attractive. It happens to both, women and men. A transaction is made as soon as they see anything attractive.
It is possible to eradicate these sexual impulses and transactions with the right intellect, even in the absence of Gnan. I had done so with my intellect. People remain uncontrolled in sexuality because of lack of right intellect.
[3] The Horrors Of Illicit Sex
If you are living a married life, you may indulge in sex that is rightfully yours and never even think about that which is not yours, because the consequences of illicit sex are very grave. And if you have renounced sex then you should never look towards anything sexual. It is inhuman to take what is not rightfully yours, to wish for what is not rightfully yours and to wish for sex that is not rightfully yours. Should there not be a line of demarcation between what is rightfully yours and what is not? You should never cross that line. Still, people have crossed that line, have they not? This is called beastliness. There is no problem in enjoying what is rightfully yours.
Questioner : Which tendency is that which drags one to enjoy sex which is not rightfully his or hers?
Dadashri : The intent of deceit and theft.
form, you too will have to go there with her. These days, this happens everywhere. Have you any idea where your next birth will be?' People who have enjoyed sex that is not rightfully theirs will have to suffer painful miseries. Even their daughters would become characterless. The rule is that the person with whom you have interacted sexually that was not rightfully yours will, in lives to come, become your mother or your daughter.
Even the Lord allows sex with your wife, not with anyone else. If He were to refuse even this then he would be guilty. He has said no to what is not rightfully yours. If repentance is done for all illicit sex, then also one can be freed. But these people are happily enjoying sex that is not rightfully theirs and that is why they bind a very strong knot of suffering of many lives.
Illicit sex is a violation of all the five major vows given by the Lord. In that, you commit himsa (violence), you tell lies and you are openly stealing. It is a day light robbery. Then, abrahmacharya is definitely there and the fifth violation is parigraha (possession). Abrahmacharya is the biggest parigraha. The Lord says that, there is liberation for the one who indulges in rightful sex but there is no liberation for the one who indulges in illicit sex.
These people do not understand much. They are like a stray animal that is always looking for food ant tries to get it from wherever it can. They will look for sex from where ever they can get it. Are you familiar with buffalos and it's relatives? They would clean up anybody's farm.
There are very few people who have an understanding of the importance of brahmacharya. As long as they have not tasted illicit sex they are relatively safe. As soon as they taste it, they go wild. This does not suit us. Our Hindustan has such
By disregarding what is rightfully yours, if you engage in sex with another woman, you will have to take birth wherever that woman goes in her next life. If she goes to a lower life