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Can you lose Buddhi Naadi through procreative intercourse?

Dhananjay • 12/2/2010
Question

Hi Dhananjay,

Thanks for the answer to my previous post on ejaculatory
control. Great answer!

Can I ask you another question? In your answer to my
previous question, you said that results such as the 'Buddhi
Naadi' appear only after having become a complete
'Urdhvaretha' for 12 years.

Let's say that a person does this (i.e. he/she stays in a
state of true unbroken celibacy for 12 years) and 'Buddhi
Naadi' appears as a result. Now the Urdhvaretha decides to
marry (if he/she is not married already) and have a child
with his/her spouse.

Does the person lose his/her 'Buddhi Naadi' after having
procreative intercourse with the partner? And if the loss
does occur will the person have to go through 12 years of
true and unbroken celibacy to get it back again?

Hope that makes sense!

Answer

Hello Emmanuel,

Trust this finds you keeping fine. Lets come to the query,

Q: What is the correlation between appearance of the 'Buddhi Naadi' and procreative intercourse?
A: Since the objective of the sexual act is progeny and progeny only, a celibate wishing to have offspring from his legally wedded wife is allowed to indulge in the act once per wanted child.

Immaterial of whether the act is procreative or recreative, even a single instance of loss of semen will go against the purpose of staying celibate for a minimum period of 12 years and thereby acquiring the desired benefits.

Keeping the above reality in mind, celibates wishing to marry are advised to get done with their parenting objectives further to marriage and then take up the objective of life long celibacy. If a Brahmachari leads a virtuous life of unbroken celibacy before marriage, fathers a child after marriage and then continues with his practice of Brahmacharya, he will be fully poised to to take up the noble and magnanimous objective of life long celibacy. In addition to this, the child born to a celibate of such purity and virtue will most often be a great and noble soul with immense talent and lofty qualities. By the practice of true celibacy, the Brahmachari succeeds in attracting more and more of the universal consciousness which is all around him unto himself. A child is nothing but an extension of the father. It is the divine continuation of the legacy of the parents. It is the means by which the divine cosmic dream of god manifests and results in the continuation of the species. For this reason, the sexual act within the bounds of marriage, if carried out with the sole intention of begetting a child is considered a divine act of virtue.

Once a celibate practices 12 years of absolute celibacy and develops the 'Buddhi Naadi' among the numerous other powers and benefits, he will no longer be interested in sexuality as a means or recreation. Such celibacy ensures that he is almost or fully freed from the delusion that he once was a victim of. If such a person were to marry and beget offspring, he would not be deprived of his new found spiritual status as long as the intention of the activity was procreation. The very purpose of the sexual act is procreation. Using it lawfully and rightfully for the above said purpose would not constitute sin. But for the benefits of 12 year celibacy to start trickling, there cannot be even a single break, either procreational or recreational. For this reason, those wanting a family and yet embarking upon a 12 year period of Brahmacharya do so after fathering a child. This doesn't in anyway mean that a person can lead a sensuous, lustful life till he gets done with marriage and parenthood. Celibacy is a mode of life that is to be practiced at all times with purity in thought, word and deed both before marriage and after marriage. It is the power of celibacy before marriage that produces virtuous offspring after marriage and gives man the strength and inclination to take up unbroken, life long celibacy after parenting a child. There are also instances in history of great souls who have got done with their 12 year celibacy even before marriage from their teens onto their early twenties, but they are few and far in between.

So the answer to the query would be that the celibate would not in any way loose the benefits he accrues further to 12 years of celibacy if he had to marry after those 12 years and beget progeny. But till he reaches his target, there is to be absolutely no expenditure of his vital essence if the complete powers and self-realization that follows are his objectives

God bless and have a nice day :-)
Dhananjay

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