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Questioner : Are these three food items avoided for
practice of ahimsa, non-violence or is it for some other reason ?
Dadashri : These three food items greatly incite sexual
impulses and lead to abrahmacharya. These rules have to be
followed in order to preserve one’s brahmacharya.
[13] The Science Of Brahmacharya
What is brahmacharya? It is the life force of the body
(non-self). What is the ultimate essence of the food we eat and
drink? Brahmacharya! If this essence, brahmacharya disappears,
then the foundation of the relative self to the pure Self becomes
unstable and loose. And then the exact experience and attainment
of the Self becomes very difficult. Therefore, brahmacharya is
a critical spiritual practice. There is no end to bliss if there is
Gnan on one side and brahmacharya on the other. Then it
brings about an unbelievable change. It is because brahmacharya
is the life force and the essence of the body.
What happens in the stomach to all that you eat and
drink ?
Questioner : It is converted into blood.
Dadashri : What happens to that blood?
Questioner : The blood is converted into semen.
Dadashri : Really! Do you understand what semen is?
The blood is converted into semen and then what happens to
that semen? Do they not talk about seven elements of the blood?
From one of these elements bone is formed, from the second
flesh is formed, and so on until the last of all to be formed is
semen. Semen is the essence of the body. Just as clarified
butter, ghee is the extract of milk; the essence of food is semen.
The essence of worldly life is moksha and the essence of