BRAHMACHARIYA - Set Positive Goals for Your Life

BRAHMACHARIYA - Set Positive Goals for Your Life


You are living this life to fulfill certain goals that you have set for yourself in lives gone by. Among these goals are:


inner growth and advancement,


becoming a better and more religious person,


fulfilling your brahmachariya vow,


devoting your vital energies, as a brahmachari or brahmacharini, toward your chosen vocation and major personal aspirations.


Without such goals, you would not be reading this lesson today. This course is meant to help you fulfill your goals and make the best choices as you exercise your power of decision from day to day. Therefore, don't neglect these daily lessons. And don't end your study of the course until you have fully understood and mentally digested all the subject matter within it.


Brahmachariya, or spotless chastity, is the best of all penances.Such a celibate is God indeed."

ADI SANKARACHARIYA


Brahmachariya is transmutation. The goal of brahmachariya is not to repress the sexual energy, but to transmute it.


A perfect brahmachari shines like a noonday sun inall spheres of life.

SWAMI NARAYANANDA


CELIBACY IN PERSPECTIVE


It may interest you to know that nearly all religions teach their young to follow the practice of remaining virgin until marriage. Only in the past 30 years have ideas about "free sex" or freedom without responsibility become so widespread.


Review


1. Try to cognize your goals for this incarnation.


2. Brahmachariya is transmutation, which gives power to the higher nature.


Source: Saivite Virtue