Weekly power point presentations - week # 20, 2017

2. Brahmacari
Author : Vishnurata das
E-mail : vishnurata.brs@gmail.com
Date Produced : 2017
Serial No : 20 of 54

3. BRAHMACARI
ASHRAM

4.  The goal of life is not to become a pure
Brahmacari.
 The goal of life is to attain the stage of pure
bhakti to the Lord.
 But however, practicing brahmacarya is very
important.

5. The meaning of brahmacarya
śrī-nārada uvāca
brahmacārī gurukule
vasan dānto guror hitam
ācaran dāsavan nīco
gurau sudṛḍha-sauhṛdaḥ

6. A student should practice completely
controlling his senses. He should be
submissive and should have an
attitude of firm friendship for the
spiritual master. With a great vow,
the brahmacäri should live at the
guru-kula, only for the benefit of the
guru.
(SB 7.12.1)

7. karmaëä manasä väcä sarvävasthäsusarvadä
sarvatra maithuna-tyägo brahmacaryaà pracakñate
"The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely
abstain from sex indulgence in work, words and mind—at
alltimes,under allcircumstances, and in allplaces.“
(Yajnavalkya-smrti)
Basically, brahmacarya means celibacy

8. No one can perform correct
yoga practice throughsex
indulgence.Brahmacarya is
taught,therefore, from
childhood, when one has no
knowledge of sex life.

9. Children at the age of five are
sent to the guru-kula, or the
place of the spiritual master,
and the master trains the
young boys in the strict
discipline of becoming
brahmacäris.
(BG 6.13-14 ppt)

10. 8 aspects of brahmacarya:
smaraëaà kértanaà keliù
prekñaëaà guhyamäsanam
saìkalpo 'dhyavasäyaç ca
kriyä-nirvåttir eva ca
(Sridhara swami’s commentary on SB 6.1.12)

11. 8 aspects of brahmacarya:
1. Thinking about women
2. Dally with women
3. Look lustfully at women
4. Talk intimately with women
5. Speak about sex life
6. Decide to engage in sexual
intercourse
7. Endeavor for sex life
8. Engage in sex life

12. “The trick of the mind”
BEFORE

13. “The trick of the mind”
AFTER

14. General principles:
 A good grihasta is a result of a good brahmacari
training
 A householder who is strictly engaged in sexual
intercourse according to the scriptural injunction
is also brahmacari (grihasta-brahmacari)
 A householder in which sense gratification is the
all in all, is called grihamedhi
 No brahmacarya training will lead toward
grihamedhi life.

15. “brief picture on the grihamedhi life”
nidrayä hriyate naktaà vyaväyena ca vä vayaù
divä cärthehayä räjan kuöumba-bharaëena vä
The lifetime of such an envious householder is passed at night either in
sleeping or in sex indulgence, and in the daytime either in making
money or maintainingfamily members.
(SB 2.1.3)

16. puàsaùstriyämithuné-bhävametaà
tayormithohådaya-granthimähuù
atogåha-kñetra-sutäpta-vittair
janasyamoho'yamahaàmameti
The attraction between male and female is the basic principle of
material existence. On the basis of this misconception, which ties
together the hearts of the male and female, one becomes attracted
to his body, home, property, children, relatives and wealth. In this
way one increases life's illusions and thinks in terms of "I and
mine.“
(SB 5.5.8)

17. śrī-prahlāda uvāca
tat sādhu manye ’sura-varya dehināṁ
sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt
hitvātma-pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpaṁ
vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta
SB7.5.5

18. O best of the asuras, King of the demons, as far as I
have learned from my spiritual master, any person
who has accepted a temporary body and temporary
household life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety
because of having fallen in a dark well where there
is nowaterbut only suffering.
SB7.5.5

19. One should give up this position and go to the forest
[vana]. More clearly, one should go to Vrindävana,
where only Krishna consciousness is prevalent, and
should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead.
SB7.5.5

21. DIVORCE

22. natathäsyabhavetkleço
bandhaçcänya-prasaìgataù
yoñit-saìgädyathäpuàso
yathätat-saìgi-saìgataù
Of all kinds of suffering and bondage arising from various
attachments, none is greater than the suffering and bondage
arising from attachment to women and intimate contact with
those attachedto women.
(SB11.14.30)

24. The benefit of Brahmacarya
äyus tejo balaà véryaà prajïä çréç ca yaçastathä
puëyatä satpriyatvaà cavardhate brahmacaryayä
“By the practice of brahmacarya, longevity,
luster, strength, vigor, knowledge, beauty,
fame, piety, and devotion to truth increase.”
(Cited from Practice of Brahmacharya by Shivananda Swami)

25. Brahmacarya is very, very essential.
When one becomes detestable to sex
life, that is the beginning of spiritual
life.
(Lecture on April 4th, 1975)
Conclusion

26. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

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