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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
the people who are sunk hopelessly and deplorably in the mire of Samsara! May the householders get their spiritual instructions with full Bhav and Sraddha and serve the Sannyasins with great care and sincerity!
10. PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYA
As the practice of Karma Yoga is not possible without Brahmacharya, I have given here a short description of the methods by which one can be established in physical and mental celibacy.
One of the students of Dhanvantari approached his teacher after finishing his full course of Ayurveda and asked him. "O Bhagavan, kindly let me know the secret of health now." Dhanvantari replied "This Veerya (seminal energy) is verily Atman. The secret of health lies in preservation of this vital force. He who wastes this energy cannot have physical, mental, moral and spiritual development."
If the Veerya is lost, Prana gets unsteady Prana is agitated. The man becomes nervous. Then the mind also cannot work properly. The man becomes fickle-minded. There is mental weakness
According to Ayurveda semen is the last Dhatu that is formed out of Majja or marrow. From food chyle (Rasa) is manufactured. Out of chyle comes blood (Rakta); out of blood comes flesh, out of flesh comes fat; out of fat comes marrow; out of marrow
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