Fwd: Spiritual Scriptures Greatly inspiring brahmacharya (celibacy) quotes !
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Know that in this world there is nothing that cannot be attained by one who remains from birth to death a perfect celibate… In one person, knowledge of the four Vedas, and in another, perfect celibacy – of these, the latter is superior to the former who is wanting in celibacy. - The Mahabharata.
Those who waste the fluid are tyrannized by Kal [the negative power]. Those who waste the fluid lose all. Those who waste the fluid suffer greatly…He who wastes the fluid always suffers. He who wastes the fluid gets into extreme troubles…He who does not control the fluid is degraded….By self control one gets everything. – From “Pran Sangli” of Guru Nanak.
Christ was known as a celibate. His statement, “Some are eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven” very plainly refers to celibacy. It also refers to the Kingdom of Heaven within that is attained through celibacy. (“The kingdom of heaven is inside you,” He says elsewhere.) Christ speaks beautifully of celibacy again in His Parable Of The Three Brides. One “bride” uses up the “oil” in her lamp and is thus unable to “receive the bridegroom” — of Christ Consciousness.
A wise man should avoid lust as if it were a burning pit of live coals. From the contact comes sensation, from sensation thirst, from thirst clinging; by ceasing from that, the soul is delivered from all sinful existence. - Sri Buddha.
Kabir: ‘mun ka chalta tan chale taakaa sarvasva jaaya.’ (The one who follows the lead of his mind looses everything).
In the Jnan-Sankalini Tantr, Shiv says, ‘Torturing the body is no austerity–Brahmacharaya is the best austerity. A man of unbroken continence is no man but a god’.
These sexual propensities, though they are at first like ripples, acquire the proportions of a sea on account of bad company. – Narad.
The Hath Yog Pradipika, a key fourteenth-century text, says those who practice brahmacharya need no longer fear death.
Ramakrishn Paramahans says, “For the one who observes the state of celibate for 12 years, the channel (medha nadi) becomes active. Due to this, the intellect becomes very sharp and the person becomes talented. His intellect can comprehend the subtle very easily. Only with the help of such subtle intellect one sees God”.
The Chandogya Upanishad says, “Only those who (observe) brahmacharya will attain to Brahman (Supreme Reality). For them there is freedom to act as they wish in all the worlds. Now, what people call yajna (sacrifice) that is really brahmacharya. What people call worship (Ishta), that is really brahmacharya. What people call Vedic sacrifice that is really brahmacharya. For only through brahmacharya does one understand the Atman (the Self). (8.4.3, 8.5.1-2)
Srimad Bhagavatam has this to say, “The highest form of tapas (austerity) is the abstinence from sexuality and not in the performance of body-torturing rites. Heroism lies in the conquest of one’s sensual, lustful nature and not in mere combativeness. And Truth is seeing God in everything and not mere factual speech.” (1.11.18.43)
In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishn exhorts spiritual aspirants to be “fearless, serene, restrained in mind and established in the vow of continence” and meditate on Him to reach the goal. (6.14). He says that a person aspiring to enter the “Imperishable Principle” should lead a life of continence and asceticism. Such a person is assured of liberation at the time of death. (8.11-12).
Sri Krishn also warns about the pitfalls of progressive degeneration if one does not control lust and anger. “It is lust; it is anger, born of Rajogun, insatiable and prompting man to great sin. Know this to be the enemy in man’s spiritual life. Knowledge is overcast by this eternal foe of the aspirant after knowledge. Therefore, controlling the senses at the beginning itself, slay this foul enemy, the destroyer of all knowledge and realization.” (3.37-41)
And those students who find that world of God through chastity, theirs is that heavenly country; theirs, in whatever world they are, is freedom. - Chandogya Upanishad.
The Prasnopnishad stresses the same point. When six highly evolved aspirants approach sage Pippalada seeking the Highest Brahman, the Rishi tells them, “Stay here another year observing austerity, brahmacharya and faith. Then you may ask questions as you please and, if I know, I will surely explain all to you.” (1.2)
“Brahmacharyena Tapasa Deva Mrityumupagnata” The Vedas declare that by Brahmacharya and penance the Devas has conquered death.
How did Hanuman become a Mahavir? It is with this weapon of Brahmacharya that he acquired unsurpassable strength and valour.
The great Bhishma, the grandfather of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, conquered death by Brahmacharya.
It is only Lakshman, the ideal Brahmachari, who put down Meghanad, the man of inestimable prowess, the conqueror of the three worlds, the son of Ravan. Even Sri Ram could not face him. It is through the force of Brahmacharya that Lakshman was able to defeat that invincible Meghanad.
The valour and greatness of emperor Prithviraj was due to the strength of Brahmacharya.
There is nothing in the three worlds that cannot be attained by a Brahmachari. The Rishis of yore knew fully well the value of Brahmacharya and that is the reason why they sang in beautiful verses about the glory of Brahmacharya.” – Swami Sivanand.
Bhagavad Gita’s warning:
Thinking about sense-objects
Will attach you to sense objects;
Grow attached, and you become addicted;
Thwart your addictions, it turns to anger;
Be angry, and you confuse your mind;
Confuse your mind; you forget the lesson of experience;
Forget experience, you lose discernment;
Lose discernment, and you miss life’s only purpose.
The scriptures declare emphatically: “Ayustejo Balam Veeryam Prajna Sreescha Yashastatha, Punyamcha Sat-Priyatvamcha Vardhate Brahmacharyaya” – By the practice of Brahmacharya, longevity, glory, strength, vigour, knowledge, wealth, undying fame, virtues and devotion to the truth increase.
Sensuality destroys life, luster, strength, vitality, memory, wealth, great fame, holiness and devotion to the Supreme – Gita.
“I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the God’s affairs–how he can please the God. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world–how he can please his wife– and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the God’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the God in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world–how she can please her husband.” Corinthians I 7.32-34.
In the Bhagavad-Gita the divine incarnation Krsn states that lust covers up a man’s wisdom and discriminative faculties, and compares lust and anger to the smoke that covers up the light of a flame, then turns and compares lust to an insatiable fire that destroys man. Arjun asks Krishn why men continue in a state of evil:
· “Now then, by who led, does a man, O descendant of Vishnu, practice sinfulness, as though unwilling and impressed by force?”
· “It is lust; it is anger, born of the quality of rajas. Know this to be the great devourer, great sin, and the enemy on earth. As by smoke fire is enveloped, and the looking glass by rust, as the womb envelopes the fetus, so by lust discriminative knowledge is enveloped. Enveloped is wisdom by this constant enemy of the wise in the form of desire, which is insatiable as a flame. “– Bhagavad-Gita 3:36-38.
‘Just after the act, both the partners feel extreme drainage of energy; still no one understands the importance of celibacy.’ – Saint Kabir.
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