Brahmacharya Quotes

“Opinions about sexuality, is the main evidence of the presence of wrong knowledge about sexuality.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“If one abstains in just sex, he will end up being ‘God’. If one becomes immersed in sex, he will go straight to hell.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Nothing in this world attracts ‘me’. It will attract ‘me’ only if it is greater than me, right?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Relation with another man or a woman, other than one’s own husband or a wife, is a direct cause for a life in hell.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“You are free to enjoy what is yours, but happily enjoying what is not yours will bind a strong karmic knot, and ruin many more future births. But that knot will loosen up through pratikraman (apology) and one will have the opportunity to become free.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“If someone picks your pocket and you are not affected, then you are within the boundary of the Real (Nischay). You have come out of the boundary of the relative (vyavahaar) and begun [to remain] in the boundary of the Real.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy With Understanding

“One, who feels like dying only while asking for sex, can conquer this world.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Sex is an open dependency.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy With Understanding

“What is worth winning in this world? The three veds (sufferings). The one who has conquered ved (sufferings), he has conquered the whole world. What are the three veds (the sufferings)? The male, the female and the neutral gender.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“If these three genders (veds) were not involved in the play of nature, then you would be able to remain separate in the worldly life for sure. All the play is within the three genders (ved). If these three were regarded as food (nourishment), then there was no problem. But they have been called sufferings (ved).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Rotla (bread) and vegetables (food) are to be eaten for the purpose of putting out hunger, not for taste. If you eat for taste, then you will not like to eat. It will become a thing to suffer (ved). This world is rotting due to the three sufferings (due to the 3 veds (genders)).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“The sense pleasure of the sex (vishaya) is like nature of the mud. If you can remember only the Self, then it is not a vishaya. Otherwise, everything that you remember, are all vishayas.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Wherever there is attraction, there is delusionary attachment (moha). Maintain pure awakened awareness of the Soul (shuddha upyoga) where there is attraction. Then that place will not bother you.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“There is nothing in this world that will bind you. Only where one enjoys the women other than his own wife, that will bind one.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Hunger is a solution to alleviate suffering. All the vishayas (senses of pleasures) are a solution to alleviate suffering. But they have become passions for people. Stay within the limit there; do not become passionate about them. Discover normality in them.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Meeting a woman is not harmful, but it is harmful for the eyes to be attracted to her. So do pratikraman (do apology) at that time and resolve this case.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy With Understanding

“One begins to be free of the disease (of the sex), from the moment he or she opposes sex.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“To see as, ‘this is a woman’, is a man’s disease, and to see as, ‘this is a man’, is a woman’s disease. There is moksha (liberation) for the one who becomes free of such a disease.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Sexuality is not the poison; fearlessness in sexuality is the poison. Therefore be afraid of sexuality.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“He himself is ‘Absolute Supreme Soul’ (Parmatma), but he is involved in experiencing things which do not belong to him lawfully, and that is why he is not aware of that. The Lord had said that he does not object to you having three wives, but they must be lawfully yours. Take care of your wife’s mind, and the wife takes care of your mind, and remain alert that karma (deeds) does not increase.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“We come together because of the attraction of the sub-atomic particles (paramanu), due to karmic relationships; that is asakti (infatuation). Because of this asakti [infatuation], we get pushed around. Asakti arises again; when we become anaskata (remain non-attached), that will bring the solution.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya : Celibacy

“When one is attracted towards a woman; it is ‘asakti’ [infatuation]. But when the soul [relative self] gets engrossed into it; that is ‘attachment’ [raag].”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy With Understanding

“There are two types of energies; one in the domain of the Real Self and the other in the domain of the non-Self. The energies of the Real Self’s domain can shake the Universe, whereas the energies of the non-Self domain can’t break even a papad (lentil wafer). It is vyavasthit shakti [the energies of scientific circumstantial evidences] that governs everything [in the non-Self domain].”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Due to circumstances of current times, thoughts have increased a lot. One becomes engrossed in the thoughts he likes. This gives him ‘elevation’ and this is extremely harmful. And he gets depressed with thoughts he does not like.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“No one has been able to attain the state of ‘Jitendriya-Jin’ (one who has attained victory over all senses) through the medium of the body complex. One can only become Jitendriya-Jin when he attains the Knowledge of the Self. The senses can never be conquered as long as there is ignorance of the Self, because the nature of the senses is to charge and discharge. Conquer one and another erupts.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“All Jains believed in one thing; what is worth worshipping? The answer is the right belief (samkit). There are endless reincarnations to attain the right belief. Samkit (right belief) means the right vision, whereas this is the wrong vision. And this false belief (mithya darshan) of yours of ‘I am Chandubhai’ is your false faith (mithya shraddha).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“It is more than enough if one becomes a ‘Purush’ (Pure Soul) even for a second! One will become a Parmatma (absolute supreme Soul) if he were to become a ‘Purush’ even for a second. No one has become a ‘Purush’ even for a second.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya : Celibacy

“When can it be considered as Knowledge of the Self (AtmaGnan)? When it comes into effect. Otherwise, by saying, "I am a diamond," the diamond cannot be 'attained' [realized]. In the same way, in order to realize the Knowledge of the Self, the Self has to be Known with its intrinsic functional properties; and if the properties come into effect, then the Knowledge of the Self will be attained.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“To cause terrible harm to one’s own Self is known as ignorance of the Self (agnan). Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) is that which removes all that is detrimental to the Self thus making it completely beneficial to one’s own Self, after which One can indeed attain final liberation.   ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“Actually, on the path of liberation, One attains saiyam (a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) from the Gnani Purush, and through that saiyam, liberation is attained. Without saiyam, there is no liberation.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy