Importance of brahmacharya/celibacy

Questioner: Does this mean that there is a connection between brahmacharya and the experience of the self?

Dadashri: Of course there is. That is the main point. With brahmacharya you can achieve whatever you want to. With brahmacharya your worldly aims will be accomplished. You will be able to follow your vows and commitments. There is ease of further progress in all directions. The extract of non-Self, brahmacharya is a very important. If this is present it opens the Self.

No one has provided a real understanding on the subject of sex, to anybody. That is because people themselves are involved in sexuality. The saints and sages in the olden days were very sincere and that is why they could talk and make people understand it.

"That sex is poison is not known. If they did know that sex is poison, they would stay away from it. Therefore the Lord says that the fruit of knowledge of the Self is continuity as the Self What is the fruit of knowledge ? to stop, cease. one hasn't known the danger of sex and therefore he does not stop."

"If there is anything to fear, it is the fear of sexuality. There is no other reason, in this world, where fear is necessary. Therefore, beware of sex, just like you would with snakes, scorpions or a tiger."

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.

So many people ask me, 'What is there in sex that my whole body feels like death after experiencing the pleasure of sex, my mind dies and my speech dies?' I tell them that all these people indulging in sexuality are already dead, but because you have not awakened to this fact, the same condition occurs again and again. Otherwise if ever brahmacharya is preserved, each human being has so much energy. The knowledge of the Self is the ultimate essence of time (samayasaar). This is real awareness that increases the experience of the Self. And brahmacharya is the essence of the living body.

The presence of brahmacharya in the mind, the body and the speech results in wonderful power of mind, wonderful power of body and wonderful power of the speech. What type of sexuality existed in the times of Lord Mahavir? The sex was limited to having one to two children. The Lord knew that this interaction would be abused in this day and age, so he had to add the fifth vow of brahmacharya.

It is a real wonder that humans are stuck in the terrible filth of exploitation of the five senses. It is horrible heap of filth. The world continues to move in this filth, because people do not understand this. If one gives a moment's thought to this, then one would understand that this truly is a heap of filth. It is nothing but absolute filth. But people do not think at all. Why are human beings stuck in such dirt? It is because they cannot find a cleaner place (real happiness) anywhere else, therefore they continue to lie in this filth.

Glossary: Brahmacharya-Celibacy: (Absolute freedom form sexual impulses through mind-speech-body)
Samayasaar: (The Nature of the Self) is a famous Jain text by Acharya Kundakunda.

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Reference: Book Name : Brahmacharya : Celibacy- Attained With Understanding (Page #4, Paragraph #6 ,Page #5 and Page #6, Paragraph #1)   

 

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1. What is Celibacy / Brahmacharya?
2. Can married people attain liberation?
3. How to cease sexual impulses?
4. How to control sexual desire?
5. The role of food in Brahmacharya/Celibacy
6. Why there is attraction between man and woman?
7. How to be free from sexual attraction?
8. Why do wet dreams occur?
9. How does Self-realization help in the practice of celibacy?