PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYAM : SECTION II : - 11.1. SWAMI SIVANANDA
==================================== ------------------------------------------------------------- 15/04/2020. SECTION II. THE GLORY OF BRAHMACHARYAM -11.1. 11. WOMEN AND BRAHMACHARYA-1. 1. Introduction : -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. An aspirant writes : “I would like to know whether the same theory regarding the formation of Veerya and loss of the same holds good in the case of women also. Are they actually affected to the same extent as men?” The question is an important and pertinent one. Yes, indulgence in the sexual act is exhausting to the female system and a drain upon the vitality as in man. The nervous strain it imposes on the system is very great indeed. 2. The female gonads, the ovaries corresponding to the testes in the males, produce, develop and mature precious, vital force like semen. This is the ovum. Though the woman does not actually lose this out of her body, as in the case of semen in man, yet, due to