PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYAM : SECTION II : CHAPTER - 7-2.
18/01/2019. SECTION II. THE GLORY OF BRAHMACHARYAM : 7-2. CHAPTER - 7. THE MEANING OF BRAHMACHARYAM -2 2.The eight breaks in Brahmacharya : You should carefully avoid the eight kinds of enjoyment, namely, Darshan or looking at women with passionate resolve, Sparshan or touching them, Keli or play, Kirtan or praising the qualities of the other sex, Guhya-Bhashan or talking in private, Sankalpa or determination, Adhyavasaya or nearing the other sex with the desire for gratification and Kriyanivritti or the actual sexual act. These eight kinds of enjoyment are eight kinds of breaks, so to say, in the current of Akhanda Brahmacharya practice. You must avoid these eight interruptions with great care, sincere exertion and vigilant circumspection. Only he who is free from all these breaks can be called a true Brahmachari. A real Brahmachari should ruthlessly avoid all these eight breaks. A Brahmachari should avoid looking at a woman with lustful eyes. He should not have the desire...