Showing posts with label Brahmacharya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brahmacharya. Show all posts

Monday, July 05, 2010

Patanjali Yoga Sutra - II - 38


Rooted in Brahman

Brahmacharya Prathishtayam Veeryalabhaha|

For the one who is rooted in Brahmacharya - he/she gains a lot of vital energy force. The common understanding of Brahmacharya is sexual abstinence. The word, when split gives the clear meaning Brahma - the divine self and charya - to walk the path. Clearly it means, through the roads of the five sense organs, one has to train the mind on the path of god.
When actions are done in this frame of mind - i.e. while seeing it is the divine you see, while hearing, smelling, touching, tasting and thinking you are aware of the divine essence that runs through everything and thought in the world, then you are rooted in Brahmacharya.
For such people who see the one divine in everything, there is an immense gain in prana shakti which is not dissipated in a wrong and illusory understanding of duality. - Swahilya Shambhavi. (Pic: Trekker walking up to the Kali Para near the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Neyyar Dam, Kerala. - Swasham.)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Patanjali Yoga Sutra - 30

Five attitudes towards the world

Ahimsa Satya Asteya Brahmacharya Aparigrahaha Yamaha|

The five attitudes towards the external world are Ahimsa - non-injury to people, other creatures and material objects - by thought, word and deed and an active practice of compassion, Satya or speaking the truth as it is, in a way that it does not hurt or harm others as it should be in tune with Ahimsa, Asteya - not stealing or taking something that does not belong to you, integrity in using only that which belongs to you, Brahmacharya - treading the path of the Brahman or consciousness in all thoughts, words and action and Aparigrahaha - not acquiring excessive material possessions, more than what you may need.
These five qualities help to purify the mind and make it a fit vehicle to grasp the truth of consciousness. - Swahilya Shambhavi.