Foundations of Yoga: Brahmacharya (Restraint of Sexuality)

June 29, 2008

Brahmacharya: continence
“Brahmacharya is abstemiousness of the sex agency and added senses,” says Vyasa.
Brahmacharya is the adjustment and attention of all the concrete admiral of the animal being, after which he cannot auspiciously accompany the greater action of Higher Consciousness. Sexuality is usually advised the capital focus of brahmacharya because it has such a able anchor and access on the animal being. It is advised that if sex is mastered, all the senses will be baffled as well. There is artlessly no way to argue those absorbed to and apprenticed by sex that abandonment (brahmacharya) is the absolute wisdom. Therefore I will not appoint in any argumentation on the point. But a few facts can be allusive to the aboveboard seeker.
The action of the senses stifles the action of the spirit by accustomed abroad the bigotry of the intellect, as Krishna states: “The mind, which follows in the deathwatch of the abnormality senses, carries abroad discrimination, as the wind a baiter on the waters.” (Bhagavad Gita 2:67) The basal life-force, the prana, is blown through any acute action of the senses, abrasion the close being. But animal allowance is abundantly added annihilative of alertness than any added anatomy of faculty experience, for it expends the life-force to a amount far, far above that of added faculty experiences. Both anatomy and apperception are depleted through animal activity.
Spirit has two aspects: alertness and energy. Alertness is constant, admitting activity is cyclic. It is the movement of activity that produces (and is) our acquaintance of relativity, and it is the development of activity that is the action of evolution. Therefore the attention and appliance of activity is the capital account of success or abortion in airy endeavor. Diffusion and amusement of activity consistently weakens. Hence brahmacharya is a basic Pillar of Yoga.
Basically, brahmacharya is attention and ability of all the activity systems and admiral of our being. This is abnormally accurate in affiliation to abrogating emotions, for amazing activity is expended through lust, anger, greed, envy, hatred, resentment, depression, fear, obsession, etc. Further, they are both the causes and the affection of accident self-control, a above aspect of brahmacharya. Research has apparent that bodies in the anchor of these affections absolutely breathe out basic elements of the body. For example, the animation of affronted bodies is begin to be burdened with copper. So abrogating affect depletes us physically as able-bodied as energetically. Positive affections on the added duke absolutely enhance and accession our activity and concrete levels. The agronomics of (true) love, compassion, generosity, cheerfulness, friendliness, and suchlike accomplish us stronger and calmer-essential aspects of brahmacharya. It is absorbing that the English chat “virtue” is ultimately acquired from the Latin chat virtus-”power”-which in about-face is acquired from the Sanskrit chat virya, which agency both ability and strength.
“A abode for aggregate and aggregate in its place,” is not aloof a adage of orderliness. When activated to the individual’s activity systems it is the basis of backbone and bloom on all levels. Every atom of claimed activity bedevilled by us has both a abode and a purpose. To ensure actual adjustment and amount of activity is the aspect of the yogic science. And brahmacharya is its foundation.
[For applied advice on brahmacharya the afterward books are acutely valuable: WARNING: Sex May Be Hazardous to Your Bloom by Dr. Edwin Flatto, Science Discovers The Physiological Value of Abandonment and Nutritional Sex Control and Rejuvenation by the abundant twentieth aeon Rosicrucian, Dr. Raymond Bernard, The Practice of Brahmacharya, by Swami Sivananda, and The Role of Celibacy in Airy Action by Swami Chidananda.]

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