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Brahmcharya
the harm of abrahmacharya and thoughts related to this.
You will have to get rid of sex if you want liberation.
There are about a thousand mahatmas who take this yearlong
vow of brahmacharya. ‘Grant us a yearlong vow of
brahmacharya, Dada,’ they say. They come to know all the
benefits within a year
Abrahmacharya is indecision. Indecision is not related to
the unfolding of karma.
I was shocked after talking to four to five mahatmas. I
told them that this falsehood of sexuality would not do. This is
merely indecisiveness (anischaya). You will definitely have to get
rid of it. Brahmacharya is needed first. You are really a
brahmachari by way of being the Self, but you cannot be
abrahmacharya in worldly interactions. This is a clear conflict.
One who does not have any opinions about brahmacharya
or abrahmacharya is considered to be in brahmacharya. To
constantly remain the Self is my brahmacharya. That does not
mean that I do not accept the external brahmacharya of thoughts,
speech and acts. As you are living a married life, I have to say
that there is no problem with abrahmacharya, but your opinion
for abrahmacharya must not exist. Your opinion should always
be for brahmacharya. Abrahmacharya for you is a file that needs
to be settled with equanimity. You are not able to experience
the bliss of the Self because you are still stuck with your old
opinions about sexuality and abrahmacharya. Once these opinions
leave, you will be able to experience the bliss of the Self. The
veil of opinion for abrahmacharya obstructs your clear vision
and bliss. The opinion must be exclusively that of, and for
brahmacharya only. What is a vow? A vow is that which continues
its experience effortlessly. When is the mahavrat of brahmacharya
attained? It is the experience that there is not an iota of the
thought of abrahmacharya, and no memory of it.