Brahmacaries should count their blessings daily...

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Those intending to remain lifelong brahmacaris should particularly read and

discuss those portions from sastra that emphasize the value of remaining free

from sex. Sastric descriptions of sexual entanglement are unreservedly factual

and strong, and are welcomed by renunciates who want to break their material

attachments. Those who want to maintain such attachments may dislike such

descriptions, but that is simply their misfortune.

 

Those who become enlivened by such strong statements are fit candidates for

trying to remain as brahmacaris. Those who become discouraged, thinking the

challenge to overcome sexual attraction to be too tough, are not going to make

it.

 

Notwithstanding the opinions of others, the lifelong brahmacari goes on hearing

and discussing such descriptions so as to maintain sharp spiritual

intelligence. He must be firmly convinced that material life is no better than

a ditch into which people pass stool. He does not feel brahmacarya to be an

oppressively difficult struggle, but counts his blessings daily for remaining

safe from family life.

 

>From BIKC by Bhakti Vikasa Swami