Eight kinds of Celibacy
1.Prekshan - A Human being can possess the memory of his present or past births, anytime in his mind. It is possible that with the remembrance of the pleasure of the moments spent with the opposite sex, a man or a woman can get excited in the mind for copulation, when there is no occasion for excitement. This causes the vital white fluid in the body to get diluted automatically and it gets discharged out of the body followed by fatigue, thereby making a great loss to the health. So men and women were told to be cautious about the thoughts in their mind. It was advised that one must immediately take steps to eradicate such thoughts from the mind in any way. Suddenly and deliberately driving the thoughts to some different subject is one of the ways to get rid of this problem.
2.Smaran- Such sudden thoughts about the opposite sex are liked and enjoyed in the mind. This creates the desire and a habit of deliberate remembrance of those moments spent with the opposite sex earlier. The deliberate remembrance and thinking about the same subject frequently becomes a dangerous habit.
3.Kirtan - The dangerous habit of thinking about the opposite sex erupts into words. Such people, who like thinking, start liking the talks about the subject. They start enjoying the talking, writing, viewing etc. about the opposite sex.
4.Keli- After sudden thoughts, deliberate remembrance, reading, writing, speaking, secret viewing about the opposite sex, follows the attempts to attract and allure. Everybody knows this very well as to how smartly this “create attraction” project is carried out.
5. Guhyabhashan- Desperate efforts to talk to a person of the opposite sex alone become imperative due to excess of excitement. This sparks the communication between the two.
This is the secret meeting and exchanging the words that would please each other.
6.Sanket- This step is taken by men or even in some cases by the aggressive women. This is an effort to make the opposite sex partner understand about the desire of copulation without making any open effort.
7.Adhyawasaya- When and Where to meet? Both decide about their meetings and timings (Nowadays called dating).
8.Kriyanivritti- Action.
Celibacy according to the Hindu Shastra is to avoid each and every step as described above. It is not sufficient if one does not marry. He or she would be called a celibate only if all the above eight restrictions were observed very, very strictly. In olden days, a person who would take on celibacy, if found indulging in to association with the opposite sex, would be treated by the people as a social outcast. Father, of the great world renowned saint ‘Jnaneshwar’, had become ascetic and celibate after his marriage, because he did not want to continue the married life. He approached his Guru for Vidya (knowledge), who advised and ordered him to give up the asceticism and go back to married life. After reunion, he had four children named Nivritti, Jnaneshwar, Sopan and a daughter Muktabai. All these four became great saints in India in their teen ages. People mentally tortured Jnaneshwar’s father to the extent that he committed suicide. All the four children were outcast by the local people and were refused even the alms for their living. This example shows that in the olden days, there was great importance to celibacy in India.
Avoiding all the eight things mentioned above was named as celibacy and doing all the above eight was the Kamshastra-the science of love. The above restrictions for celibacy were recommended for the ascetics especially learning Yoga Shastra. Why the above regulations of celibacy were made especially compulsory to the people learning Yoga, should be understood seriously by millions of the young students of Yoga today all over the world. This in fact is necessary, but the question remains as to how many Yoga teachers themselves are celibates? What is taught and learnt today as Yoga is a mockery of Yoga, say the knowledgeable people. Yoga has become a fad and a salable commodity in this age of opportunism called science age, say the people in spiritual circle in India.
Celibacy is arbitrarily observed in other species as the nature restricts the copulation for reproduction only. We see that in the animals and birds, males-females come together only at a particular period of a season in the year. The lion and some other species copulate once in two or three years. There is a God in India by the name “NarSimha”. The God has the body of a man and the head of a lion. “Nar” means man and “Simha” means lion. How can a man have a lion’s head? Physically it is not possible. But the lion thinks about mating very rarely, in the same way the married people who keep the patience like a lion, get such a mental and physical power that they can only be compared with God. The God Narsimha stands purely for the restricted relations.
1.Prekshan - A Human being can possess the memory of his present or past births, anytime in his mind. It is possible that with the remembrance of the pleasure of the moments spent with the opposite sex, a man or a woman can get excited in the mind for copulation, when there is no occasion for excitement. This causes the vital white fluid in the body to get diluted automatically and it gets discharged out of the body followed by fatigue, thereby making a great loss to the health. So men and women were told to be cautious about the thoughts in their mind. It was advised that one must immediately take steps to eradicate such thoughts from the mind in any way. Suddenly and deliberately driving the thoughts to some different subject is one of the ways to get rid of this problem.
2.Smaran- Such sudden thoughts about the opposite sex are liked and enjoyed in the mind. This creates the desire and a habit of deliberate remembrance of those moments spent with the opposite sex earlier. The deliberate remembrance and thinking about the same subject frequently becomes a dangerous habit.
3.Kirtan - The dangerous habit of thinking about the opposite sex erupts into words. Such people, who like thinking, start liking the talks about the subject. They start enjoying the talking, writing, viewing etc. about the opposite sex.
4.Keli- After sudden thoughts, deliberate remembrance, reading, writing, speaking, secret viewing about the opposite sex, follows the attempts to attract and allure. Everybody knows this very well as to how smartly this “create attraction” project is carried out.
5. Guhyabhashan- Desperate efforts to talk to a person of the opposite sex alone become imperative due to excess of excitement. This sparks the communication between the two.
This is the secret meeting and exchanging the words that would please each other.
6.Sanket- This step is taken by men or even in some cases by the aggressive women. This is an effort to make the opposite sex partner understand about the desire of copulation without making any open effort.
7.Adhyawasaya- When and Where to meet? Both decide about their meetings and timings (Nowadays called dating).
8.Kriyanivritti- Action.
Celibacy according to the Hindu Shastra is to avoid each and every step as described above. It is not sufficient if one does not marry. He or she would be called a celibate only if all the above eight restrictions were observed very, very strictly. In olden days, a person who would take on celibacy, if found indulging in to association with the opposite sex, would be treated by the people as a social outcast. Father, of the great world renowned saint ‘Jnaneshwar’, had become ascetic and celibate after his marriage, because he did not want to continue the married life. He approached his Guru for Vidya (knowledge), who advised and ordered him to give up the asceticism and go back to married life. After reunion, he had four children named Nivritti, Jnaneshwar, Sopan and a daughter Muktabai. All these four became great saints in India in their teen ages. People mentally tortured Jnaneshwar’s father to the extent that he committed suicide. All the four children were outcast by the local people and were refused even the alms for their living. This example shows that in the olden days, there was great importance to celibacy in India.
Avoiding all the eight things mentioned above was named as celibacy and doing all the above eight was the Kamshastra-the science of love. The above restrictions for celibacy were recommended for the ascetics especially learning Yoga Shastra. Why the above regulations of celibacy were made especially compulsory to the people learning Yoga, should be understood seriously by millions of the young students of Yoga today all over the world. This in fact is necessary, but the question remains as to how many Yoga teachers themselves are celibates? What is taught and learnt today as Yoga is a mockery of Yoga, say the knowledgeable people. Yoga has become a fad and a salable commodity in this age of opportunism called science age, say the people in spiritual circle in India.
Celibacy is arbitrarily observed in other species as the nature restricts the copulation for reproduction only. We see that in the animals and birds, males-females come together only at a particular period of a season in the year. The lion and some other species copulate once in two or three years. There is a God in India by the name “NarSimha”. The God has the body of a man and the head of a lion. “Nar” means man and “Simha” means lion. How can a man have a lion’s head? Physically it is not possible. But the lion thinks about mating very rarely, in the same way the married people who keep the patience like a lion, get such a mental and physical power that they can only be compared with God. The God Narsimha stands purely for the restricted relations.
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