Start of celibacy

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Trust this finds you keeping well. Coming to the answers,

The manifestation of sexual energy starts in a person at the onset of puberty, whenever that happens. This may vary from person to person. In men this generally occurs between the ages 13-16. Till this period, Prâna (vital energy) that is produced is locked in within the system to ensure complete growth and development of the body and the brain of the child. This shows the importance and significance of the power of vital energy. Even nature dams and conserves this great power during the first few years of the development of the child to ensure complete and thorough growth of the basic physical body and brain system. Once this development has reached a certain level, puberty occurs and the adolescent person becomes capable of the act of reproduction.

Spiritual progress in a person depends on the evolutionary level already reached by the soul in its past birth. We must remember that birth and death are only a change in the body and circumstances the same embodied soul finds itself in. Just as a man casts away his old clothes and wears new clothes, the soul casts away its worn out body and takes birth in a new body to continue with its evolution. One might ask the question, "Then why do young children or young adults with bodies that are in good condition die? In cases where a young child or person dies the particular circumstance and setup the soul found itself in was already worn out and unfit for its further progress and evolution and in working out its karma. Whatever degree of evolution was possible for the particular soul in that particular existence has already been achieved. It has no chance to progress further in this setup. By circumstance, we here mean its upbringing, parents, society, state of life, overall conditions of existence etc.. So the embodied soul gives up the present body and circumstances and goes in search of another body in another circumstance which will then offer it the required conditions necessary for its further evolution. This is what is called as death and birth. To the soul, these are as trivial as discarding one's old and worn out clothes and wearing new clothes.

The earlier a person starts masturbating, the faster will be the degeneration and decay. The question of the actual age when puberty onsets does not matter as masturbation starts only after puberty and not before. If people of all the age groups mentioned above masturbate equally for a period of five years, all of them will degenerate more or less to the same extent. However, those who start masturbating later have a somewhat lesser degree of debility as compared to those who start it right at the onset of puberty. This is so because the body has been given a longer time to grow, develop and fully form during the growing years (men grow up to the age 21) without the wastage of semen. In the same way, the person who started masturbation very late has a higher chance of recovery in terms of time.

              ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)