How can I focus on brahmacharya?

It’s about providing your mind and body with what it needs – and enjoys – without going to a place of excess. Listen to your body. Paying attention to what your body is asking for will naturally lead you toward brahmacharya.

How can we save brahmacharya?

Exercising regularly, but not overtraining. Set limits. Sticking to limits can also help us apply brahmacharya in daily life. For example, professional accomplishment is an important source of fulfillment for most people.

How can I practice brahmacharya?

Paying attention to what your body is asking for will naturally lead you toward brahmacharya. What does that look like in practice? Eating when you’re hungry, but not stuffing yourself. Resting when you’re tired, but not lying in bed all day.

How can I be a good Brahmachari?

A Brahmachari must needs control his palate. He must eat to live, and not for enjoyment. He must see only clean things and close his eyes before anything unclean. It is thus a sign of polite breeding to walk with one’s eyes towards the ground and not wandering about from object to object.

What is Brahmacharya and how to practice it?

1. Daily meditation and constant japa is the essential foundation of brahmacharya. Japa and meditation cause the subtle forces known as prana to rise upward. Those who become adept in these spiritual practices will become “urdhvareta yogis”–those in whom the sexual energies flow upward and become transmuted into spiritual energies.

What are the best books for Brahmachari?

Two books are especially important for the aspiring brahmachari: Meditation and Spiritual Life by Swami Yatiswarananda (order from amazon.com) and Practice of Brahmacharya by Swami Sivananda. This latter book can be downloaded for free from the Divine Life Society website.

What does Patanjali mean by Brahmacharya?

Author of a useful booklet on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras called “A Student’s Companion to Patanjali”, Roger Worthington translates Brahmacharya as meaning “non-sensuality”. Patanjali states that energy is conserved when we remove our attention from the sense pleasures and conserve it. John McAfee, known for his book “The Secret of the Yamas”, agrees.

What Swamiji said about Brahmacharya (continence)?

Swamiji: Do you see, simply by the observance of strict Brahmacharya (continence) all learning can be mastered in a very short time — one has an unfailing memory of what one hears or knows but once. It is owing to this want of continence that everything is on the brink of ruin in our country.

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