Practice of *Brahmacharyam (*Self- Restraint ) : 2.Brahmacharya in Modern Society-1. - Swami Sivananda.
============================================================================= Sunday, 17 Mar 2024 05:30. SECTION IV. A SYMPOSIUM COMMENTARY ON SWAMI SIVANANDA’S 8TH SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION: Swami Chidananda. 1.Duties of Householders 2.Brahmacharya in Modern Society-1. ========================================================================================= 1.Duties of Householders: All this talk about brahmacharya must not give us the impression that in Hinduism and in the Hindu religion, sex has no place and celibacy is the only thing that is insisted upon and lauded as the highest virtue. That would be a mistake, a misconception. In the Varnashrama Dharma, pattern of life formulated and given for the individual born into the Hindu faith (Vaidica Dharma), brahmacharya is insisted upon as total abstinence from sex life, from any form of physical and mental manifestation of sex life, for three of the four ashramas. But in the Grihasthashrama (householders’ life) the exercise of sex l...