Guest guest Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 can someone explain brahmacari life in more detail? all i know is that it means celibate, life of a student, or is there a website that would explain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 found this. . . http://www.prabhupadavani.org/Bhagavatam/text/613.html and this . . . Therefore the brahmacari... We have to teach the brahmacari... Brahmacari gurukule vasan danto guror hitam. This is brahmacari, not for his personal benefit, but guror hitam. Then he is brahmacari. Not that a brahmacari has to become a very learned scholar in grammar and turiya... These are secondary things. First thing, he has to learn how to control the senses, danta, how to control the mind. Samo damah. This is the beginning of brahminical life. If you cannot control your mind, if you cannot control your senses, there is no question of becoming brahmacari. Brahmacari, brahme carati iti brahmacari. And brahmana means brahma janati iti brahmanah. So these are the beginning, brahmacari. Brahmacari means who is always in Brahman activities. That is brahmacari. Or brahmana means one who knows the Supreme, Supreme Brahman, Parambrahman. So if you understand Krsna, then immediately you are liberated. Param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [bg. 10.12]. So if we understand Krsna, then we are both brahmacari or brahmana, brahma-jnana, brahma-bhutah. These words are there in the sastra: athato brahma jijnasa. Therefore the real life is to inquire about Brahman. Inquiring, inquiring, when the conditioned soul... Now it is jiva-bhutah. So long we are conditioned by the material nature -- prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [bg. 3.27], bhunkte prakrtijan gunan -- then we are jiva-bhutah. Otherwise when we come to our real position, that is brahma-bhutah. So that brahma-bhutah position can be attained. If we strictly follow the rules and regulation of brahmacari or brahmana, then it is possible. Otherwise it will be simply formality. Practical life, brahma-bhutah. And how do I know that he has become brahma-bhutah? Prasannatma [bg. 18.54], no more moroseness, always jolly in any condition of life. Not that "For want of this, one is suffering." There is no want. That, that mentality, that attitude, should be increased. And when it is fully increased, then he's fully satisfied, atmarama. That is called atmarama. Just like Dhruva Maharaja. He said, svamin krtartho 'smi, "Oh, I am fully satisfied." Naivodvije para duratyaya-vaitaranyas tvad-virya-gayana-maha amrta-magna. As Prahlada Maharaja said, "Now I am in the ocean of nectarean. I have no suffering." That is brahma-bhutah. So this brahma-bhutah.. http://www.prabhupadavani.org/Bhagavatam/text/448.html and http://www.iskcon.net/celibacy/brhat/bvps.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 sorry no quotation marks, the above is direct material from the website: http://www.prabhupadavani.org/Bhagavatam/text/448.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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