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Brahmcharya
The stock of past life stored within you will unfold and therefore
the thoughts will come, but the answer to this is pratikraman. It
would be wrong if one were to insist that thoughts must not arise.
Questioner : Doe that mean that we should reach that
stage?
Dadashri : Yes, but the state where no sexual thoughts
arise, comes from the spiritual development of many life times.
Your progress by doing constant pratikramans will come to a
level where there will be no sexual impulses, and that is the
attained brahmacharya. Once pratikramans start, the end would
come after five to ten lives. It may not necessarily end in one
lifetime.
People are not aware and they do not reflect on the
consequences of a sexual thought that arises. They say, what
harm can there be in a thought? They do not realize that a
sexual thought that lays the seed of a new karma and its discharge
karma effect are connected. If a sexual thought does not arise
spontaneously, then it would come by looking, externally.
[14] Brahmacharya : Eternal Bliss
In this kaliyug, current era of the time cycle characterized
by a progressive decline in spiritual knowledge and moral
deterioration, it is very difficult to practice brahmacharya. Our
Gnan is the ocean of bliss and therefore one’s practice of
brahmacharya is possible. What is the reason for abrahmacharya
and sexual indulgence? It is due to the fire of inner restlessness
and discontentment. By working all day long constant inner
burning restlessness arises. To quench this fire of restlessness
and discontent within, one indulges in transient pleasures of sex.
Because of this Gnan there is not a problem for you for moksha
but if there is brahmacharya along with it, the resultant bliss is
boundless and eternal. There is endless bliss of the kind that the