what is the meaning of this quote given by Swami Vivekananda justify You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that. please explain it broadly( long)
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what is the meaning of this quote given by Swami Vivekananda justify You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that. please explain it broadly( long)
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The Indian concept Brahmacharya (Bengali: ব্রহ্মচর্য, Hindi: ब्रह्मचर्य) and Western concept Celibacy are not exactly same. Celibacy means a state of being unmarried and sexually abstinent. but Brahmacharya is stricter, it not only includes one's physical activities, but also his/her thoughts and words. They say—
Karmana manasa vaca
Sarvavasthasu sarvada
Sarvatra maithuna-tyago
Brahmacaryam pracaksate
(Karmana=work, manasa=mind, vaca=words, sarvatra= everywhere, maithuna-tyago= leave sexuality)
Brahmacharya should be like
a burning fire within the veins!
—Swami Vivekananda
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In Hinduism someone who is observing Brahmacharya must abstain from Ashtanga Maithuna (Sanskrit/Hindi: अष्टांग मैथुन, Bengali: অষ্টাঙ্গ মৈথুন)
Smaranam kirtanam kelih
Preksanam guhyabhasanam
Sankalpo ‘dhyavasayas ca
Kriya-nirvrttir eva can
According to Swami Vivekananda's description: "Chastity in thought, word, and deed, always, and in all conditions, is what is called Brahmacharya."[Source]
In this article we'll make a collection of Swami Vivekananda's quotes and comments on Brahmacharya or Celibacy or Continence. Related articles are listed at the bottom of the page.
Swami Vivekananda on Brahmacharya
Brahmacharya should be like a burning fire within the veins![Source]
By the establishment of continence energy is gained. The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will-power. Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength. Continence gives wonderful control over mankind. The spiritual leaders of men have been very continent, and this is what gave them power. Therefore the Yogi must be continent.[Source]
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. The Brahmachârin must be sexually pure in thought, word, and deed. Lose regard for the body; get rid of the consciousness of it so far as possible.[Source]
Even he, born of a foreign nationality and living in a foreign land, can understand the meaning of our Brahmacharya as the only way to the attainment of spirituality, and belies that it is not even in these days rare in India, whilst the hypocritical heroes of our own household are unable to see anything else than carnal relationship in the matrimonial union! "As a man thinketh in his mind, so he seeth outside."[Source]
Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful Brahmacharya system of yore.[Source]
If the performance of Yajnas is the corner-stone of the work-portion of the Vedas, as surely is Brahmacharya the foundation of the knowledge-portion.[Source]
In order to attain to ideal Brahmacharya one has in the beginning to observe strict rules regarding chastity. Not only should one keep oneself strictly aloof from the least association with the opposite sex, but also give up the company of married people even.[Source]
Is there a greater strength than that of Brahmacharya—purity, my boy?[Source]
Save the spiritual store in your body by observing continence.[Source]
Teach the boys the system of Brahmacharya.[Source]
The modern system of education gives no facility for the development of the knowledge of Brahman. We must found Brahmacharya Homes as in times of old.[Source]