Swami Sivananda Vani

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Philosophy and Forms of Physical Passion

 

The moment there is a lustful craving for any sexual person there is a

psychological perpetration of adultery. The astral body operates in

thinking. Further Brahmacharya is defined as not merely restraint of

the forces of self-reproduction but also of self-preservation.

Gluttony, arrogance, anger, greed or miserliness, audacity, jealousy,

infatuation and such material tendencies are a fall from Brahmacharya

and a failure of the endeavour to attain spiritual perfection. Anger

is the product of passion; excessive sleep and inertia form the

negative phases of cupidity. Talkativeness is a misuse of constructive

energy and is a break of Brahmacharya. Brahmacharya is a fasting of

the objective tendencies of the mind and a directing inward of the

same to help in Self-illumination.