The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one

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One cannot enjoy sex life daily at home or elsewhere and attend a so-called

yoga class and thus become a yogi. One has to practice controlling the mind

and avoiding all kinds of sense gratification, of which sex life is the

chief. In the rules of celibacy written by the great sage Yajnavalkya it is

said:

 

karmana manasa vaca

sarvavasthasu sarvada

sarvatra maithuna-tyago

brahmacaryam pracaksate

 

"The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely abstain from sex

indulgence in work, words and mind -- at all times, under all circumstances,

and in all places." No one can perform correct yoga practice through sex

indulgence. Brahmacarya is taught, therefore, from childhood, when one has

no knowledge of sex life. Children at the age of five are sent to the

guru-kula, or the place of the spiritual master, and the master trains the

young boys in the strict discipline of becoming brahmacaris. Without such

practice, no one can make advancement in any yoga, whether it be dhyana,

jnana or bhakti. One who, however, follows the rules and regulations of

married life, having a sexual relationship only with his wife (and that also

under regulation), is also called a brahmacari. Such a restrained

householder brahmacari may be accepted in the bhakti school, but the jnana

and dhyana schools do not even admit householder brahmacaris. They require

complete abstinence without compromise. In the bhakti school, a householder

brahmacari is allowed controlled sex life because the cult of bhakti-yoga is

so powerful that one automatically loses sexual attraction, being engaged in

the superior service of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gita (2.59) it is said:

 

visaya vinivartante

niraharasya dehinah

rasa-varjam raso 'py asya

param drstva nivartate

 

Whereas others are forced to restrain themselves from sense gratification, a

devotee of the Lord automatically refrains because of superior taste. Other

than the devotee, no one has any information of that superior taste.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bg 6.13-14