faith on ourself
Question
Hello sir,
I was glad and thankful for your feedback for the previous
question.
Sir I have a query on my past experience.It was just 1 year
back where I was practising my celibacy on regular interval.I had a thinking that practising celibacy brings sucess to your life,but at the same moment I failed in a particular subject in my engg examination where my faith started collapsing there by.Even if I practise my celibacy but some times that griefs inflicts the pain.So how can I come out of it?Hope you wont mind for this.
Answer
Hello Sagar,
Hope your are doing fine. Coming to your query,
The practice of celibacy in the right sense in thought, word and deed indeed helps man to achieve great success. Enormous energy, ability and potential are made available to the body and mind further to the practice of Brahmacharya. Now how man makes use of this power for his achievements is a proposition that depends on various factors.
For a student to fare well in his examinations, hard work in his field of studies is of paramount importance. Brahmacharya makes available at his disposal a great deal of memory, concentration, patience, determination and intelligence. How well he actually makes use of these to practically achieve success in his examination will depend on his application of the same.
Brahmacharya is somewhat similar to a few liters of fuel at hand. But for the fuel to be ultimately beneficial, one still has to fill it into an automobile, start the engine, drive through traffic and finally reach one's destination whereupon the fuel would have met its purpose. If a man were to just sit at home with the can of fuel before him he would not reach the destination. He needs to take the initiative to make the fuel work through the automobile.Here we are converting automobile fuel into locomotion to help us move. A Brahmachari converts his sexual energy into 'Ojas' or divine energy and makes use of it to achieve his objectives.
As man succeeds in longer and longer periods of true celibacy in thought, word and deed, the power at his disposal also proportionately increases. While a beginner might not see much difference in his ability at the start as compared to his past, consistent and honest efforts will slowly start releasing the tremendous power and might which Brahmacharya bestows. As the saying goes "Patience is golden" and "Everything comes to he who waits and perseveres"
God bless and have a nice day :-)
Dhananjay