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	Brahmacharya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the first in the four phases of human life, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and finally Sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life.
		The word, Brahmacharya, is also used for the vow of celibacy that a Hindu sanyasi or renunciate may take at any age when they have understood that living for material/sensual pleasures will never bring the perfect happiness that their soul desires.
		Brahmacharya is also observed to contain one's sensual desires for food and taste, as well as materialism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brahmacharya (655 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Brahmacharya
		It is the first in the four phases of a man, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and finally Sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life.
		The word, Brahmacharya, is also used for the vow of celibacy that a Hindu sanyasi or renounced monk may take at any age when he has understood that living for material/sensual pleasures will never bring the perfect happiness that he (his soul) desires.
		Brahmacharya thus means control in thought, word and action, of all the senses at all times and in all places.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brahmacharya (861 words)

	The Imortance of Brahmacharya! (by Sri Swami Sivananda)
		Brahmacharya is the vow of celibacy in thought, word and deed, by which one attains Self-realisation or reaches Brahman.
		Brahmacharya is abstaining from all kinds of Maithuna or sexual enjoyment forever, in all places and in all conditions, physically, mentally and verbally.
		Brahmacharya or spotless chastity is the best of all penances; a celibate of such spotless chastity is not a human being, but a god indeed.
	www.yoga-age.com /modern/brahma.html (4967 words)

	Spirituality, Brahmacharya ( Celibacy), Hindu
		Brahmacharya is the dam of all pleasures of life and only learned people keep it and their power and life increases and all sickness is destroyed.
		A great scholar of ancient India Sri Pathanjali's in his teachings explains the importance of Brahmacharya and it is studied by foreign scholars and one such famous scholar Dr. Louis an eminent physician opined that most precious atoms of the blood enter into the composition of semen (in his book Chastity).
		In Srimad Bhagavatham a holy book of Hinduism it is clearly mentioned that practice of brahmacharya is also one of the important duties in married life and it is waived only for the purpose of procreation, austerity, purity, contentment and friendliness towards all.
	1stholistic.com /Prayer/hol_brahmacharya.htm (1231 words)

	Gandhi's Experiments With Celibacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The knowledge that a perfect observance of brahmacharya (celibacy) means realisation of Brahman, I did not owe to a study of the Shastras.
		Many aspirants after brahmacharya fail because in the use of their other senses they want to carry on like those who are not brahmacharis.
		An aspirant after brahmacharya will always be conscious of his shortcomings, will seek out the passions lingering in the innermost recesses of his heart and will incessantly strive to get rid of them.
	www.lifepositive.com /Spirit/masters/mahatma-gandhi/celibacy.asp (709 words)

	Celibacy
		Brahmacharya is divested of all connection with the five vital breaths, mind, understanding, the five senses of perception, and the five senses of action.
		It is through Brahmacharya of this kind that the celestials attained to their divinity, and sages, highly blessed and of great wisdom, have obtained the region of Brahman.
		Brahmacharya is the most vital subject for those who wish to attain success in material and spiritual life.
	www.hinduism.co.za /celibacy.htm (4716 words)

	Brahmacharya
		It is only when observance of brahmacharya becomes natural to one that he or she derives the greatest benefit from it.
		The glorious fruit of perfect brahmacharya is not to be had from the observance of this limited brahmacharya.
		A person, who ahs real desire for brahmacharya, will not give up the effort because he or she regards the observance of these rules as impossible or at least within the reaches of one in a million.
	www.mkgandhi.org /health/keytohealth/brahmacharya.html (2363 words)

	Yoga Journal : Views : The issues affecting the yoga community, interviews with master teachers, and a reviews of yoga ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this tradition, brahmacharya designates the period of studenthood-roughly the first 21 years of life-and during this time celibacy was to be strictly followed in order to keep one focused on study and education.
		For others, brahmacharya means practicing celibacy only during certain times-at a relationship's end in order to recover, during a yoga retreat in order to focus more clearly, or perhaps when one's practice is particularly deep and celibacy naturally evolves out of it.
		For still others, brahmacharya means merely refraining from suggestive speech or promiscuous behavior, or at the very least taking note of how much time and energy we and our culture devote to sex-sex as marketing tool, sex as conquest, sex as distraction, and sex as jackpot.
	www.yogajournal.com /views/770_1.cfm (3605 words)

	Tantric view of Brahmacharya
		Thus, Brahmacharya means living your life, doing what you have to do or want to do, and at the same time keeping your mind fixed on God.
		Brahmacharya is the key to spiritual success because it converts all actions into acts of sa'dhana' (spiritual practice or worship).
		Moreover, equating Brahmacharya with celibacy is incorrect because such a definition implies that God-realization is somehow connected or even inseparable from celibacy.
	www.abhidhyan.org /Answers/Tantric_view_of_Brahmacharya.htm (526 words)

	Brahmacharya: Glory of Brahmacharya
		The great Bhishma, the grandfather of Pandavas and Kauravas conquered death by Brahmacharya It is only Lakshmana, the ideal Brahmachari who put down the man of inestimable prowess, the conqueror of three worlds, Meghanada, son of Ravana.
		Brahmacharya is the bright light that shines in the house of human body.
		Brahmacharya is the basis for the attainment of Kaya Siddhi.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Brahmacharya/id/23505 (1051 words)

	Brahmacharya, Celibacy Attained With Understanding
		Precise understanding, of practical attainment of brahmacharya, gained by eradicating the root cause of sexuality, is given to the seeker.
		He initiates the cause brahmacharya in the light of this absolute vision and experiential bliss for all who come to him seeking freedom from the clutches of sexuality and its misery.
		Brahmacharya is the ultimate essence of this complex of intake and output, this living body.
	www.dadashri.org /brahmacharyapv.html (6412 words)

	Brahmacharya - An Outlook of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The attitude of the Supreme Being towards the universe and all beings is Brahmacharya, and to the extent that we are able to participate in this attitude, it may be said that we are also following that canon.
		The idea behind this significant term Brahmacharya, translated as the conduct of the Absolute, is that it is a gradual adjustment of the powers of one's personality towards larger and larger dimensions of impersonality, because, the Absolute or Brahman is the Supreme Impersonality conceivable and existent.
		By celibacy we mean abstinence from marriage, and we associate or identify celibacy with Brahmacharya or continence in the light of the requirement of Yoga, especially as mentioned by Patanjali.
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /univ/univ_10.html (2614 words)

	Sri Ramakrishna Math : The Vedanta Kesari, Editorial: Brahmacharya - II
		Vyasa, the commentator of the Yoga Sutras, however, defines brahmacharya as the control of the organ of generation and giving up of all forms of lust, which means not only abstaining from gross sexual indulgence but also thinking, willing, seeing, talking, observing and indulging in sexual entertainment mentally or through other senses.
		We may not agree with the postulate of Sigmund Freud that sex is the most important driving force in man and that the fullest sexual development, both physical and psychological, is the goal to be achieved for a complex-free psyche.
		Thus knowing that which is beyond the intellect (self) and controlling the mind by the intellect (self), kill, O mighty armed one (Arjuna), the enemy in the form of desire (lust), which is difficult to conquer.
	www.sriramakrishnamath.org /magazine/vk/2000/6-2-1.asp (2500 words)

	Brahmacharya - The Yoga of No-Sex?
		Sometimes Brahmacharya is also defined as continence, in which case the gray areas become even grayer.
		Practice Brahmacharya on this level and you will never have a stomachache from too much food, suffer a hangover or wake up in the morning next to an embarrassed stranger.
		Of course, those Yogis who insist that Brahmacharya is celibacy, and that it is a necessary practice in the search for enlightenment, do have a point.
	www.allspiritfitness.com /library/features/aa083101a.shtml (783 words)

	Choosing Celibacy (or Brahmacharya)
		Ramakrishna, an Indian saint who went deeply into the practice of brahmacharya, described his experience as "one in which it seemed that all the pores of the skin were like female organs and intercourse was taking place over the whole body".
		The principles of karma yoga, the yoga of life activities, might be particularly relevant to a celibacy that serves a creative project or activity: to enjoy the process of your work at each step, rather than focusing too much on the gratification of completion.
		He claimed it was an ideal preparation for a relationship or a satisfying lifestyle in itself, based on discovering one's inner source of happiness.
	www.innerself.com /Sex_Talk/celibacy.htm (1480 words)

	Practice of Brahmacharya
		This is the definition of Brahmacharya in a broad sense of the term.
		Of the nature of Brahmacharya is verily this Atman and in Brahmacharya It resides.
		Brahmacharya is the vital subject for those who want success in material or spiritual life.
	www.yoga-age.com /modern/brahpractice.html (17084 words)

	Definition of brahmacharya
		The word ''Brahmacharya'' symbolises a person who is leading a life in qu...
		He was bestowed with the vows of Brahmacharya by Swami [[Shivananda]] in 1923 on [[Sri Sarada D...
		The word ''Brahmacharya'', although commonly understood as a term for cel...
	www.wordiq.com /search/brahmacharya.html (384 words)

	Brahmacharya (Celibacy)
		Brahmacharya is the Achara or conduct by which you attain or reach Brahman (God).
		Brahmacharya is absolute freedom from sexual thoughts and desires.
		Brahmacharya is meant both for men and women.
	www.sivanandadlshq.org /teachings/brahmacharya.htm (2273 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Hanuman \| October/November/December, 2003
		Swami Saradananda: "The subject of brahmacharya is as intrinsic to this conference as oil is to a lamp.
		In the case of Sri Hanuman, He is not a spiritual aspirant striving to practice brahmacharya.
		If brahmacharya is practiced, the physical body remains youthful and beautiful, the brain keen and alert and the whole physical expression becomes the likeness and the image of the Divine.'
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/2003/10-12/26-27_hanuman.shtml (1142 words)

	brahmacharya, celibacy attained with understanding
		The uninterrupted pure brahmacharya through the medium of thoughts, speech and acts that is the exact prerequisite for final liberation, is that which stills one eternally in the supreme bliss of the Self, uprooting all elements of worldly life interactions.
		The one who definitely wants to practice only brahmacharya, must first examine and severely test his control over his senses, and if he feels that he may slip, then it is better for him to get married.
		There can never be exception for brahmacharya because man’s mind is looking for a loophole and wherever there is a slightest hole, the mind makes it larger.
	www.dadashri.org /brahmacharya.html (7942 words)

	Brahmacharya Panchagni Vidya
		But every microcosm is cosmos in miniature, and therefore the cosmic involutionary process can be individually given the evolu-tionary turn in the top most perfect microcosm of human form.
		The Hindu sages have pointed out that it can be accomplished through living a life of celibacy named by them as brahmacharya, which is conducive to God realization, because it leads the individual male or female to Brahman.
		Shukra or semen in the seed form, is the last stage of involution having been worked out in the course of the cosmic half of the cycle.
	www.beezone.com /DevatmaShakti/Chapter6.html (2428 words)

	Brahmacharya
		Brahmacharya translates literally as “walking with God” or “prayerful conduct.” Brahma is the Hindu deity of creation.
		All of this instruction is working with the assumption that we, as yogis, are searching for the self-knowledge and peace of mind that are the fruits of a devoted yoga practice.
		Another aspect of brahmacharya is the discipline that it requires.
	www.yogawithamey.com /brahmacharya.html (1012 words)

	Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Yama, yoga postures, asanas, yoga as a mind-body therapy, yoga as an alternative therapy, ...
		Brahmacharya is a movement toward the essential truth.
		Brahmacharya suggests that we should form relationships that foster our understanding of the highest truths.
		So the more we seek the truth in the sense of brahmacharya, the more vitality we will have to do so.
	www.holistic-online.com /Yoga/yoga_astanga_yama.htm (874 words)

	SanathanaDharma
		He was, after shaving the beard and moustaches, required to take the vow of Brahmacharya anew and to live the life of strict continence for one year.
		In the sutra period the shortest period of Brahmacharya was twelve years.
		Later on, however, owing to the emergency of child marriage, it became a common practice to close the brahmacharya period with the Kesanta or Godana.
	www.sanathanadharma.com /samskaras/edu3.htm (657 words)

	Brahmacharya
		We recommend this article: Brahmacharya - 1, and also this: Brahmacharya - 2.
		According to the theory of transmigration, even if the individual is to take another birth immediately after his death, the performance of Sraaddha adds to his happiness in his new birth.
		Brahmacharya brahmacarya (Sanskrit) (from brahman cosmic spirit, divine wisdom + charya conduct, practicing from the verbal root car to perform, undergo)
	www.experiencefestival.com /brahmacharya/page/4 (391 words)

	Practice of Brahmacharya (No Hatha Yoga Illustrations)
		The Vedas declare that by Brahmacharya and penance the Devas have conquered death.
		Brahmacharya is the highest knowledge; Brahmacharya is the greatest strength.
		Saluting Brahmacharya first, the cases beyond cure, I cure.
	www.sivanandadlshq.org /download/brahma_nopic.htm (18728 words)

	Satsang Glossary-B
		3) One who is in the first stage of life in the traditional Hindu four stages of life, i.e., brahmacharya stage.
		For renunciants brahmacharya has been prescribed as eight-fold abstinence from associating with the opposite gender in the following ways:
		For householder males, brahmacharya constitutes renouncing all women except their wives, abstaining from sexual relations with one's wife on days of observance, and engaging in sexual relations with her only during the appropriate times {Gadhada I-34.8}.
	www.swaminarayan.org /glossary/b.htm (1111 words)

	brahmacharya Brahmin Samaj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Term : "brahmacharya: "Path to God," or "moving in God." Sexual purity -- restraint of lust and the instinctive nature.
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	homepage.ntlworld.com /prakash.joshi/brahmacharya.html (48 words)

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