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There are two kinds of brahmacari. One who is leading complete celibacy, complete free from sex life, he is called brahmacari. Another brahmacari grhastha-brahmacari. He has got his wife, but he has no other understanding with any other woman

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"there are two kinds of brahmacari. One who is leading complete celibacy, complete free from sex life, he is called brahmacari. Another brahmacari grhastha-brahmacari" |"He has got his wife, but he has no other understanding with any other woman"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Brahmacārī, there are two kinds of brahmacārī. One who is leading complete celibacy, complete free from sex life, he is called brahmacārī. Another brahmacārī gṛhastha-brahmacārī. He has got his wife, but he has no other understanding with any other woman. And that wife also only, I mean to say, relation with wife is performed under regulation, he is also brahmacārī. One who has his relationship with wife under rules and regulation and does not know any other woman, he is also brahmacārī. That is also called brahmacāri-vrata. And one who lives complete celibacy life, that he is also brahmacārī.

In the Vedic language it is forbidden for a yogī, or those who are transcendentalist . . . because he has to remain brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥ. Brahmacārī, there are two kinds of brahmacārī. One who is leading complete celibacy, complete free from sex life, he is called brahmacārī. Another brahmacārī gṛhastha-brahmacārī.

He has got his wife, but he has no other understanding with any other woman. And that wife also only, I mean to say, relation with wife is performed under regulation, he is also brahmacārī. One who has his relationship with wife under rules and regulation and does not know any other woman, he is also brahmacārī. That is also called brahmacāri-vrata. And one who lives complete celibacy life, that he is also brahmacārī.

So that brahmacāri-vrata is essential for yogī. Brahmacāri-vrata. Now, yata-cittasya . . . yogam ātmanaḥ, that mind should not be agitated. He says: "The mind should not be agitated." Suppose I am brahmacārī, I am taken the vow, brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥ, I have taken the vow that "I will have no sex life in my life." Then mind may be agitated sometimes. So there are precautions. Precautions. It is said in the Vedic literature that one should be very careful about woman. They, they are so much careful; mātrā svasrā duhitrā vā nāviviktāsano bhavet (SB 9.19.17).

The prescription is that "One should not sit alone even with his mother, with his sister and with his daughter." You see. Balavān indriya-grāmo vidvāṁsam api karṣati. The mind is so, I mean to say, fragile, that even little, they can create havoc. You see? So these things are prescription for the yogīs. Yogī has to look into the prescription of the system.

yatroparamate cittaṁ
niruddhaṁ yoga-sevayā
yatra caivātmanātmānaṁ
paśyann ātmani tuṣyati
(BG 6.20)

Now, the yogī should control in such a way his mind that as soon as mind goes from the position of meditating on Viṣṇu, he should at once drag the mind. That requires a very good practice. You see? Then Kṛṣṇa says that:

sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad
buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam, atīndriyam
vetti yatra na caivāyaṁ
sthitaś calati tattvataḥ
(BG 6.21)

One who does not know that real happiness can be experienced by our transcendental senses, not with this material senses . . . senses are not to be sacrificed. Desires are not to be sacrificed, but there are desires in the spiritual field, there are sense satisfaction in spiritual field. That is a different thing.

So here it is said, sukham ātyantikaṁ yat (BG 2.21). What is really happiness, tad buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam, that is transcendental to this experience, empirical sense gratification. Vetti yatra na caivāyaṁ sthitaś calati tattvataḥ. One who does not know this, then certainly he will be agitated in the mind and fall down. So one should know that the happiness which we are trying to derive from the material senses, that is not happiness.

Page Title:There are two kinds of brahmacari. One who is leading complete celibacy, complete free from sex life, he is called brahmacari. Another brahmacari grhastha-brahmacari. He has got his wife, but he has no other understanding with any other woman
Compiler:PoojaA
Created:2022-10-12, 05:41:16
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1