What is celibacy? A guide on how to be Celibate

What is celibacy? Is it possible to practice celibacy without controlling sexual impulses?

Yes!

When you do not participate in or encourage sexuality through the mind, speech and body that is celibacy. It does not matter if you are married or not. For those who want to understand and learn how to be celibate, this unique new vision of the Gnani Purush becomes the exclusive and guaranteed key.

One should have a deep inner intent to practice celibacy and should ask for strength from God to practice celibacy with the mind, speech and body.
Instead of controlling the mind, find out the causes that trap your mind in sexual desires and immediately cut off the link with them.
Analyze the pros of celibacy and the cons of sexuality.
Param Pujya Dadashri says, “One begins to be free of the disease (of the sex), from the moment he or she opposes sex.” Repent for any sexual thoughts, desires and gestures that occur in the mind, the speech and the body. This is a stepping stone towards celibacy.
For married people, taking a vow of celibacy with mutual understanding or ensuring sexual loyalty is considered celibacy in this era.

Rather than mere suppression, celibacy should be practiced with right understanding. Param Pujya Dadashri has given practically applicable keys on celibacy in the book, “Brahmacharya: Celibacy with Understanding”. He has explained the consequences of illicit sex, the benefits of practicing celibacy, as well as how to be celibate in everyday life.

Refine your understanding with the below questions and answers:

Celibacy with Right Understanding

Sexual attraction other than your spouse is against the law. You should not have attraction to anyone else in your mind also.

Spiritual Quotes

Those who desire the pleasures of worldly life and have a desire for material things, they should get married and those who do not like worldly pleasures and are seeking eternal happiness, should not get married.
Sexuality is not the poison; fearlessness in sexuality is the poison. Therefore be afraid of sexuality.
After earning merit karmas over countless lives, one attains birth in a family with good culture and high moral standing. But all this is lost in pursuit of sex and money.
Not getting married and continuing to be sexually active with many persons is a very dangerous and earns you the right to go to hell.
No religion accepts sexuality in spiritual matters. Those who accept and allow sexuality in spiritual path are on the wrong path, in fact on the path opposite of liberation, the path to hell.
If you can visualize the entire life of this woman that you are attracted to, you will be free from the attachment and the attraction. If you visualize with understanding what she looked like in the womb, what she looked like when she was born, when she was a little baby, when she becomes very old, when paralysis occurs, when she is about to be cremated, you do not need to be taught renunciation.
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.
Stay as far away from the company of those who are likely to trap you in sexuality, because if you get trapped even once, you will keep on getting into trap after trap.
Sex is an open dependency.
For the one who indulges in illicit sex, the sexuality will make him wander in worldly life. There is no liberation for those who indulge in illicit sex. There is liberation for those who engage in sexual pleasures that are rightfully theirs!
Human beings of the current times are not capable of practicing brahmacharya (celibacy through the mind, speech, and body). What can a married person do? That is why ‘we’ are saying that the one who upholds fidelity to one’s own wife in this era of the time cycle, will attain final liberation (moksha); such is the guarantee that ‘we’ are giving! But come to ‘us’ and understand this point.
The sense pleasure of the sex (vishaya) is like nature of the mud. If you can remember only the Self, then it is not a vishaya. Otherwise, everything that you remember, are all vishayas.
What is brahmacharya (celibacy through the mind, speech, and body)? When that which has been filled in [the food we eat] does not get discharged [the final extract of food; semen], that is brahmacharya. In fact, the one whose input (puran) is under control can practice brahmacharya!
If the law of fidelity to one’s own wife is being practiced, then it [sexuality] is considered within limits. That will take one to a higher life-form. What is the ‘limit’ [criteria related to sexuality] of going to final liberation (moksha)? Fidelity to one’s own wife.
The Lord of the three worlds becomes pleased with the one who conquers sexuality!
The one whose speech does not hurt anyone in the slightest extent, the one whose conduct does not hurt anyone in the slightest extent, the one for whom negative intents do not arise in the mind, that person is sheelvaan!
It is not that Sheel encompasses brahmacharya (celibacy through the mind, speech, and body) alone, but along with that, not a single person is hurt in the slightest extent, bliss arises simply upon seeing [the one with sheel]!
Vachanbal (the power of speech that gives results) cannot arise without coming into sheelvaan (a state that is free of sexuality and anger-pride-deceit-greed)

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