Brahmacharya

Sex and sexuality and its impulses within the mind, body and speech has landed human beings in serious difficulties in current life, and yet they continue to play with it, unaware of this. Sex is natural. sexuality is not. Sexuality distorts the natural hunger and complicates life. Brahmacharya means freedom from sexual impulses in life. is this possible? Yes. Indeed. For sure. Less Sex is a basic instinct of human life. Sexuality is not. Sexual hunger is natural. Sexual hunger that has become excessive and distorted is obviously unnatural hunger. Sexuality as it is projected and present in current life everywhere, has caged a human being in such a way that he does not even recognize that he is in a cage. Sexuality or vishaya is the intense driving need to enter into sexual pleasure realm through the mind, speech or body. Brahmacharya is the opposite of this; namely it is absence of any sexual impulse through the mind, body and speech. This is the relative meaning of the word Brahmacharya. This is what is meant by celibacy. However, the real meaning of the word 'Brahmacharya' means 'To Be the Self', and to Be Blissful in the State of the Self. That is only possible by attaining the experience of the Self that by nature is eternally blissful. This book is a compilation of satsang with Gnani Purush Dadashri on the major topic of sexuality and all its overt and subtle aspects. The nature of sexuality, its clear and present life dangers, as well as potential dangers for the lives to come, are described by the Gnani and then the beneficial effects of brahmacharya are shown with scientific exactness. Precise understanding, of practical attainment of brahmacharya, gained by eradicating the root cause of sexuality, is given to the seeker. Taking into deep consideration the varying levels of spiritual understanding of the seeker, this abridged version of the two major volumes on brahmacharya, has been edited to provide the complete spectrum of the ways to attain total brahmacharya with understanding. Please note that the original book in Gujarati titled, ‘Samaj thii praapt Brahmacharya’ means Brahmacharya attained through understanding, is in two volumes with a total of 650 pages.