One thing is its good for the nation's population.
I'm just listing the benefits Why Brahmacharya?
What is Brahmacharya first?
Brahman means the ultimate or the divine.
Charya means the path.
One who is on the path of the ultimate or one who
is on the path of the divine is a Brahmacharya.
One who is in the path of the divine means.. see after all, everybody is
in search of joyfulness, isn't it?
Knowingly or unknowingly, yes or no?
Yes Because you could not find joy, you settled for pleasure.
Pleasure is not joy, pleasure is just a shadow of joy
Its beautiful but it's very limited Whenever you involve yourself in pleasure,
if you want to have pleasure you need something or somebody to have pleasure,
isn't it? yes?
The deeper you go into pleasure, the deeper your bondage with
this something or somebody, yes?
Suppose this something or somebody is taken away from you, you will be broken isn't
it so? if you have a very deep involvement with pleasure,
that something or somebody which gives you pleasure, if it's taken away
from you, aren't you broken?
So your existence becomes that of huge bondage.
Bondage is not something that any human being enjoys.
There is something within you which is always wanting to be free
from all bondage, isn't it?
But if you become a pleasure seeker, naturally you
are setting up limitations in such a pleasant way that you cannot transcend
it.
Unpleasant limitations you can break the, pleasant limitations you cannot
break them, isn't it?
Lot of your shackles you have gold plated them
and you're wearing them like ornaments, aren't you?
Your limitations, you're celebrating your limitations.
Once you start celebrating your limitations, then
there is no way to become free of that.
So Brahmacharya means you are on the path of the divine.
That means first step towards that is you are joyful by your
own nature.
Whenever you are very happy or joyful have you noticed you don't seem to need anything,
yes?
On a particular day you're very happy, if you don't eat, if you don't
sleep, it doesn't matter Is that so?
You're unhappy then everything has to be perfect you
complain about everything in the world isn't it so?
When you're really joyful just see it sets you free.
When you're unhappy, everything is important everything has to be in a particular way.
For everything you will complain Unhappy people are always complaining Happy
people are always easy to work with, easy to be with because nothing matters
when you're happy.
Everything is flexible.
Which is freedom joy is freedom or pleasure is freedom?
Joy is obviously freedom, isn't it?
So you're seeing how to become joyful If you seek it outside you will invariably
end up becoming a pleasure seeker Anyway the source of joy is within you.
Whenever you we were happy, did happiness happen from within you or did it rain upon
you from outside?
Always within you isn't it?
So if the source of happiness is within you, searching for it outside
is quite a stupid thing, yes?
It is just that the source of happiness is within
you, you are using an external stimulus to bring forth the joy in you or in other
words, your joy is on push start.
Shall we fix self start on it?
Don't want?
If you put self start on your joy, then you're a Brahmacharya.
Now you're on the path of the divine, you are
joyful by your own nature.
Have all the Brahmacharies here become like that?Maybe
not but that's the intention.
They're working towards that.
To work towards that, you need a certain space and time
of your own that you don't have other things to handle in your life so they
have chosen a certain way of life.
Now yesterday we went up the mountain.
Just carrying your own bodyweight and reaching
there, many of you, your legs are trembling, isn't it?
Suppose you want to carry four people on your shoulders
and walk up the mountain, how many of you would make it?
Most of you would not make it Isn't it?
So that's why Brahmacharya You understand?
You are planning to climb a big peak.If you had the strength to
carry ten people on your shoulders and walk, that would be fantastic
But we rarely find such people.
It's better to walk alone, so they walk alone Now your problem is that, by the time you
became 14, your intelligence got hijacked by your hormones so much you can't understand
or you cannot accept how somebody can be free from it.
Somebody can just sit here and be happy, they don't have to get married, they don't have
to run behind the opposite sex, they don't have to do this or that, they're just
happy doing simple things in their life, more joyful than you, more intense than
you, so does it mean all of you should become a Brahmachari?
No, all of you should become a Brahmachari internally.
In terms of lifestyle, not necessarily.
Brahmacharya does not mean just celibacy, okay?
That is just one of the aspects that have been taken up as a
supportive system to become a Brahmacharya.
Brahmacharya means you are walking the path of the divine, that you are ecstatic
by your own nature.
You can be married and still be a Brahmacharya, it is
possible because you are joyful by your own nature, you are not trying to extract
joy from your husband or wife.
You are joyful by your own nature.
This is how it should be.
The whole world should be Brahmacharya, isn't it?
Everybody should be joyful by their own nature.
If two people come together, it should be more a
sharing of joy not extracting joy from each other, isn't it?
So those who have decided that they don't want to extract
anything from anybody, they want to source their own inner joy, they have
taken Brahmacharya.
And why a certain order has been set up - they have been
taken up not just for their realization.
If it's just their realization, we can take care of in so many ways.
How many of you eat mangoes?
You eat mangoes ? You ate mangoes?
No?
How many of you have planted mango trees?
See, just ten people have planted mango trees but everybody has eaten mangoes.
It's only because constantly in every generation, those ten people are planting
mango trees, everybody else is eating, isn't it?
So to carry on the spiritual path in its integrity, brahmacharies are needed
Brahmacharies means we are keeping them in such a way that their energies are loose,
malleable, we can make anything out of them.Jjust anything out of them.
I can combine 10 Brahmacharies into one and make ten Brahmacharies into one huge human
being, a huge force.
We have kept their energies loose, no personality.
Whichever way you bend they will become that way.
See if we take analogies, you are like a part.
You're a karmic part.
A certain karmas, certain influences have molded you into a certain shape, yes?
Now you become a certain type of person.
With the process of living, when you were a child it was little more malleable.
When you were a youth, it got a little rigid, by the time you're a full adult, its
totally rigid.
This is just, we can see the part is slowly being burnt with the
process of life.
Now by the time you're reasonably old, it is totally rigid
shape.
If you do anything else with it, it will break.
See now there's a burnt pot here, if you try to change the shape
of this pot, it'll only break into pieces, isn't it?
But when it was unburnt,very easily you could mold it into anything.
You made ten unburnt pots, tomorrow if you don't like it, you can put all of them
together and make one big pot, isn't it?
Now we are unburning people.
We are unburning them into that state where they are very
malleable, we can give them any shape, any form.
So Brahmacharies are working towards that.
It's a huge sadhana.
It is not just, you know like others other systems in
the world are doing this, just they take a vow of celibacy, this is not like that
There is a whole system of what they're doing with their energies.
There is a whole lot of work that's being done internally.
This is just a small part of it.
What you see as they being unmarried is just a small part of it.
The rest of it is very internal.
And people who are willing to dedicate themselves for
others well-being are needed in the society.
At anytime, if there is nobody in the society who is thinking about others well-being,
that society is heading for ruin, definitely.
That's what has happened to this society right now.
There are very few people thinking of everybody's well-being.
Others are all what about me, what about me, what about me.
If a certain percentage of people are thinking beyond their own well-being, only
then a society will remain sane and stable.
Otherwise societies will just go for ruin.
Is it not important there are few people who are
not thinking about their own well-being, their own life, they are seeing
how to make it happen for somebody else?
So Brahmacharies are an investment for future, to keep spirituality in its
pristine purity and to transmit it from generation to generation.
A small core group of people are needed.
Everybody need not take that thing nor will we
take everybody.
Every year hundreds of applications for brahmacharya comes, we
just choose 8-10 people out of that looking at various qualities and various
possibilities.
We don't take everybody who comes because it's not necessary nor
can they be like that, nor can they put in the sadhana that is required or
demanded out of them.
Your personality has to become malleable and conscious
that you can mold yourself into any kind of pot.
Is it not good to have that freedom?
That's Brahmacharya