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PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYA (celibacy) By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION http://www.dlshq.org/download/brahma_nopic.htm http://www.dlshq.org/download/brahmacharya.pdf

That’s what is happening to you: somehow you have been blocking your love energy. May you are expecting love from others , in return. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain. Shower as much love as possible, and let it be unconditional, with no expectations. Just give it for the sheer joy of giving... not even for the future, hoping some day you get returns. The moment the idea of return enters into the mind, love dies.

Whole modern education consists of reasoning, logic, intellect, mind. To much emphasis on intellect and reason makes us lopsided. And love is not capacity of intellect , it has a different focus.

A relationship is a lower state. The highest state of love is not a relationship at all, it is simply a state of your being. Here, you have to learn…just being loving. If you grow in love, meditation will happen like a shadow. Love and meditation are two aspects of the same coin; if you have gained control of the one aspect, the other follows. If you meditate, love will follow; if you love, meditation will follow. This you have to choose. Meditation is easier, love is difficult. Unless you want to move into the difficult unnecessarily – that is for you to decide; otherwise with meditation love comes automatically.

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When Buddha was a seeker of truth, he had few fellow travelers, they respected Buddha very much because he was torturing himself in every way. One day Buddha became so weak that he was unable to cross the river. Then he decided to give up all his practices. All his fellow travelers left him, assuming that Buddha has become corrupt. All friends are with you when you follow certain conditions, then your freedom is not absolute. Buddha called his community sangha. Sangha is a community of those who live with the same attitude, who live a life in common, who commune with each other. This community is a family of fellow seekers, not of fellow believers. When you believe, the community becomes a sect. If you can live alone happily, then only you can live happily with others. If someone is living blissfully in a sangha , it means he has learned the art of living blissfully alone.

That's asking too much from poor money. Money can't buy everything.

May you will learn many things from your experiences , later in your life !

No, I am rich. Once you have experienced, in the deep silences of your heart, the beauty of your aloneness and the ecstasy of your aloneness, all fear will be gone.

@Beau I live alone, this forum is my only contact with world , and I am tremendously happy. Every relationship will give you frustration in the end, no relationship can give you contentment , learn meditation.

We are born alone, we die alone. Between these two realities we create a thousand and one illusions of being together - all kinds of relationships, friends and enemies, loves and hates, nations, races, religions. We create all kinds of hallucinations just to avoid one fact: that we are alone. But whatsoever we do, the truth cannot be changed. It is so, and rather than trying to escape from it, the best way is to rejoice in it. Rejoicing in your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. The meditator is one who dives deep into one´s aloneness, knowing that we are born alone, we will be dying alone, and deep down we are living alone. So why not experience what this aloneness is? It is our very nature, our very being.

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We name techniques for meditation as a 'type of meditation'. Technique is not meditation, techniques prepare ground for meditation.

I said, " You can't sit silently right now. " We are not ready to sit silently as we are. That's why we need different techniques, martial arts, mantras , yoga to remove all blockages, so that we can become capable of sitting silently, doing nothing, unoccupied ; meditation happens on its own accord.You can't do meditation, it happens.

@Damir Elezi Material prosperity is the basis of spiritual life, without which no building is constructed Foundations can be there without buildings. Some one may leave the foundation as it is after filling it to the top; then the building will not be there in spite of the foundation. Prosperity is the basis of the condition which is above passions and passionlessness. Without being materially prosperous none can realize the uselessness of prosperity; without getting wealth, none can know that nothing is achieved by wealth. The greatest gift of wealth is the disillusion about its worth. If one does not get wealth, one can never know the worthlessness of wealth. The distressed, the needy and the poor will find great difficulty in being free from the Lure of riches. How can one be free from that which one has not got. To be free from a thing, one should have it. One should have the thing first, then and Then only can one be free from it. To be free from a smaller bondage is very difficult, and it is possible to be free from a greater bondage. If chains are few, a person can endure them; but when they are many, a person would revolt. The poor man has so few chains that he has no idea of breaking them. And a rich person has many chains, so he gets the idea of breaking them. When things are multiplied, a person realizes that he has collected a useless load around him. The load which I thought, would give me freedom, did not free me but on the contrary I am simply burdened. I had thought the load would be such that it would help me rise to a higher level; but that rising up did not materialize but made it difficult for me to walk. A greater bondage takes one nearer freedom. An affluent person is in deep bondage, so he realises - becomes conscious of what bondage is. We adjust ourselves to smaller kinds of bondage, we swallow them, we endure them. The greater the bondage, the harder it is to endure them. We endure small chains in the hope that they will be reduced in course of time - in the near future. So the idea of renouncing whatever one has got does not occur to a poor person, because his efforts to obtain what he has not got continue. Unless you make a fulfilling carreer , how will you know it can make you happy forever or not ? If detachment is seen as being the opposite of attachment, then it is wrong. But if detachment is freedom from attachment, then it is right. If a man tries to be detached, it shows attachment. Actually aversion is also one form of attachment, it's a negative. A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. Detachment is transcendence of both attachment and aversion.

You can use a mantra to still the mind, to make the mind totally silent. You go on repeating some name. The mantra can help to make you unoccupied with other words, but once the mind has become silent and still, then this name will become a hindrance. It becomes a replacement, a substitute. All other words are thrown away, but then this word continues in a crazy way. You become attached to it; you cannot drop it. It has become a habit, a deep occupation. So begin mantra repetition, but then come to a state where mantra is not needed and can be thrown. Use ”mantra” to dispel all other words from the mind, but when all other words have been dispelled, do not retain this word. It is also a word, so throw it. This throwing becomes difficult. One begins to feel guilty about discarding the mantra because it has helped so much. But now this help has become a hindrance. Throw it! Means must not become the end.

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You are misinformed brother, mantras, chants can help in reaching state of meditation, before you reach there you have to drop them. You can't enter into state of meditation while chanting mantra. Meditation happens spontaneously. Non-doing is a way of moving in. Occupation is an escape. Meditation happens, you cannot do it. Who told you that chanting mantra can be a meditation ? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ?

Meditation is always relaxation. If you can just sit, doing nothing with your body and nothing with your mind, it becomes meditation; but it is very difficult. All techniques including martial arts, help in reaching state of total relaxation. You can't sit silently right now. Sitting in a buddha posture is the last thing to do really; it should never be done in the beginning. Only after you have begun to feel identified totally with movement can you begin to feel totally identified with nonmovement. Buddha certainly says: Know how to sit silently. That does not mean that he says: Go on sitting silently forever. He is not saying you have to become inactive; on the contrary, it is only out of silence that action arises. If you are not silent, if you don't know how to sit silently, or stand silently in deep meditation, whatsoever you go on doing is reaction, not action. You react. The buddha does not become inactive; great action happens through him, although there is no doer anymore. The doer disappears, the doing continues. And when there is no doer, the doing is spontaneous; it cannot be otherwise. It is the doer that does not allow spontaneity.

Yes. A smart and witty person is more conscious, more alert than dull and stupid person , but with meditation your intelligence will grow more.

Certainly , a person who has successful career is more conscious than a lazy , retard unconscious person, but those who grow towards meditation successfully , deserve the best.

If you live meditatively , consciously in your remaining life , then only you will deserve a better reincarnation. Your future depends on way you live your present.

Your next birth depends on what you desire and what you deserve, Krishna in Bhagavad Gita say : The unsuccessful yogis (seekers of truth) , upon death, go to the abodes of the virtuous. After dwelling there for many ages, they are again reborn in the earth plane, into a family of pious and prosperous people. Else, if they had developed 'dispassion due to long practice of Yog' (higher state of consciousness), they are born into a family endowed with divine wisdom. Such a birth is very difficult to attain in this world. Successful yogis(seekers of truth) , those who attain enlightenment , don't take birth in physical body again.