krsna katha

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Brahmacarya does certainly not mean to avoid the company of the other sex!

 

Because if we fight against a thing, it just becomes more prominent - we

give it energy.

The more we fight against, the more we are connected with something.

This principle is explained in so many places in the Bhagavatam, for example

when Indra stole the sacrifical hourse of King Prithu and the priests wanted

to chant Mnatras to burn this Indra in the fire. Brahma appeard and told

them:

 

"I draw your attention to this fact. If you oppose him any further, he will

further misuse his power and introduce many other irreligious systems."

4.19.31

 

"Lord Brahma continued: Let there be good fortune to both of you, for you

and King Indra are both part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead. Therefore you should not be angry with King Indra, who is

nondifferent from you."

SB 4.19.33

 

"My dear King, do not be agitated and anxious because your sacrifices have

not been properly executed due to providential impediments. Kindly take my

words with great respect. We should always remember that if something

happens by providential arrangement, we should not be very sorry. The more

we try to rectify such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest region

of materialistic thought."

SB 4.19.34

 

Krishna says in the Gita:

 

"All living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by dualities arisen

from desire and hate." (7.27)

 

By opposing our self against the other sex we just establish ourselves on

one side of the duality in this world - in illusion.

 

Brahma says to Indra:

"Therefore you should not be angry with King Indra, who is nondifferent from

you." 4.19.33

 

Also Kapila Muni to Devahuti:

 

"As the blazing fire of death, I cause great fear to whoever makes the least

discrimination between himself and other living entities because of a

differential outlook." 3.29.26

 

Brahmacarya means to situate ourselves in the level of transcendence and act

on that level, completely loosing the idea of the vibration between the

sexes in this world. It is the Atma-bhav of which the Bhagavatam often

speaks of (6.16.4-10 etc...)

 

Brahma acar -acting on the level of transcendence means:

 

A person in the divine consciousness, although engaged in seeing, hearing,

touching, smelling, eating, moving about, sleeping and breathing, always

knows within himself that he actually does nothing at all. Because while

speaking, evacuating, receiving, or opening or closing his eyes, he always

knows that only the material senses are engaged with their objects and that

he is aloof from them. BG 5.8-9

 

One who can see that all activities are performed by the body, which is

created of material nature, and sees that the self does nothing, actually

sees. BG 13.30

 

etc...