Cold showers & sexual energy

Hello Jay,

Cold water baths or showers as regards to the Brahmachari serve the following purposes:

1. Cold water has the tendency to cool down the nerves and thus helps negate sexual desire and duress. Mind in the sexually charged state can be freed from the effect of lust to a large extent by a cold water bath.

2. Cold water has immense amount of Prâna (vital life energy) and the same gets transferred into the bather. This immediately drives out laziness, inertia, slumber and stupor the qualities that help promote lust thereby making the mind alert, active and dynamic.

3. Cold water can be applied to the entire body at the end of a day when tired or fatigued and then rubbed with a towel. This recharges the body with fresh Prânic energy derived from the cosmos and removes fatigue.

Cold water by itself does not convert semen into Ojas but is a means to reduce sexual currents.

A good technique for moderation is to have cold water baths every alternate day or when one gets troubled by lust. However, it is a better idea to gradually reduce the temperature of water for daily morning showers and not drastically use cold water all of a sudden as this shocks and chills the nerves. The temperature of water should be slowly reduced over a period of time and to one's withstanding ability. If one feels chills and extreme cold, it is an indication that the water temperature is beyond one's withstanding limit and needs to be warmed up a bit more. A bath should be refreshing and enjoyable and not chilling!

              ॐ तत् सत्
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