Brahmacharya and Prostate health

When a man leads a life high on sexual thought, word and deed, there is much generation of sexual fluid within his system. The prostate produces the prostatic fluid. The Cowper’s glands produce the Bulbo-urethral fluid; the testes constantly produce more and more quantity of sperm by drawing from all essences within the body. Ultimately, the man reaches a state where it becomes default for the body to produce large quantities of sexual fluids for ejaculation. It becomes something like second nature for the body to produce these fluids even when there is no need for the same (like the salivary glands secrete saliva very often in a person who constantly thinks and craves for food, even though he might not eat food at that particular point of time)

It is to be clearly understood that the seminal power is a mammoth power of great magnitude and intensity. It is a power which is capable of creating another life. The sexual fluid is the only fluid in the body which has the ability to create another life. No other secretion in the system can produce offspring. Hence it follows that this fluid is surcharged and replete with all life energy in man. It is formed after drawing from all the essences within the system. It is like a powerful surge of electricity. Now imagine a hydel-generator constantly generating high voltage electricity in a hydroelectric power plant. What is done with all the electricity which is produced? It is sent to a power grid which transmits this mammoth power to millions of homes, industries etc… Where the same is put to constructive use for lighting, heating or to run machinery and gadgets. This way, much benefit is accrued from the hydroelectricity which was generated.     

What would happen if the generator at the hydel-plant kept on generating high voltage power and the same was not transmitted and utilized? What would happen if all this electricity was made to stagnate within the generator itself? The generator would be burnt beyond repair and would destruct itself. Such power cannot be made to stagnate. It should be made to work for a constructive purpose and given a channel of expression. Else it becomes destructive and dangerous to the very machine that produced it in the first place.

The Human body is the generator, semen is the electric current and constructive activity and God-meditation are the means by which this electricity called semen is utilized effectively. When man conserves his semen and transmutes it into a subtle form of electricity called ‘Ojas’ (divine astral power), it can be made to work wonders in any given field of application. It fills him with immense Prana (vital energy) which can be directed to perform any task with much ease. He hardly gets fatigued, for the energy generated is constantly being transmuted into productivity. On the other hand, if man were to not give a proper expression to this seminal power, it becomes like the electric generator not being given a channel for all the power it produced. The same force works in the reverse direction and might well destroy the body.

This is what happens in the normal man addicted to a life of sense pleasure and recreational sexuality. His mind and actions are always in the direction of sex. Most men think of sex every few minutes. So hopeless and enslaved is man to sex as a source of pleasure. The result? His body constantly draws from the life essences and secretes sexual fluids all the time. As discussed, this fluid now needs an outlet. Like the electricity produced by the generator, it cannot be made stationary or stagnated. So he starts to feel unnatural urges for recreational sex, masturbation and illicit relationships. He starts viewing each and every member of the opposite sex as a target to release this pent up energy. He commits various mistakes, unpardonable sins and incurs much karma in the process. If he does not release this energy, it will kill him. He will go mad.

This is what people refer to as the ‘sexual need’. It is a very dangerous disease, this thing called as the ‘sexual need’. This is why modern medicine recommends releasing the sexual fluid, for when not conserved and transmuted, it has to be expelled for a temporary relief. This expellation however leads to the fastest degeneration, decay and debility of the body, mind and psyche. Not expelling it in such a state of mind leads to other health disorders. It is like being caught between the ‘devil and the deep sea’. Either way, there is destruction.  God created the sexual force for progeny and nothing more than progeny. Period! But man chose to extend it to recreation. This blunder costs him very dearly. It is a blunder which works very slowly but very thoroughly in destroying him.

This is why one should not suppress or repress sexuality. It cannot be held back this way with force. One should prevent the very birth of recreational sexuality through Brahmacharya and get free of this need. It takes a few years of Yoga & unbroken Brahmacharya with God-meditation to stop the secretion of sexual juices. Till then, physical, mental and meditative activity is applied regularly to transmute semen which the body is still producing through past habit.  In one whose mind has become free from sexual contemplation and fantasy, Rethas (semen) is not produced. It has become ‘Soma’ (nectar) in the brain. He is then called as an ‘Urdhvarethas’ (Urdhva-upward, Rethas-semen – One who has directed his sexual fluid upwards to the brain).  A most blessed life which cannot be described in words follows from such a state. In such a man, this energy does not come down and become gross semen as in the normal man. He has all the energy required to persevere in a mode of life that grants him self-realization, the very aim of human existence.

In reality, the ‘sexual need’ does not exist. It is a disease which one has brought upon oneself through countless lives devoted to recreational sexuality. It is an after effect of ‘Avidya’ (ignorance) which has wound itself around the Atman (soul). Just as a food addict generates much saliva even when not eating, even when not necessary, the common man who has become a slave to sexuality generates sexual fluid most of the time through indulgence in sexual thought and fantasy. If man was able to prevent such thought and instead divert his mind to constructive activity and God-meditation, the incidence of generation of the sexual fluid would also reduce in volume and finally disappear. This same energy would instead flow in nourishing the body and brain. It would give him a body immune to suffering. It would bless him with a sharp intellect, excellent memory and powerful ability of analysis even well unto old age, for where is the pain of old age in the man who has conserved his ‘Bindu’ (seed)?

Then there is no problem. A permanent and efficient solution is reached. This is why one should practice Brahmacharya. The conserved ‘Ojas’ roots out all imperfections in the physical, mental and causal bodies and helps one lead a very happy and meaningful life to free oneself from karma. Man realizes the fallacy of his ego and becomes one with God. The Atman (soul) is redelivered into its state of union with the Almighty. Brahmacharya is one’s default state. It is sexuality for recreation which is a disease and not our true state. It robs man of his happiness and well being. Hence this disease of slavery to sexual recreation, one should end.

All those who lead a strict life of Yoga and Brahmacharya, who are devoted to God, who desist from indulging in the lower traits and emotions, who see God in every living being and practice Ahimsa (non-violence), semen gets reabsorbed into the system leading to excellence in all domains in course of time. The need to constantly ‘ejaculate and cleanse’ the sexual system is for the sex enslaved man and not for the true Brahmachari. Having transmuted and sublimated his semen through physical, mental and meditative activity in the beginning years of Brahmacharya and continuously being in the state of an ‘Urdhvareta’ through ‘Samadhi’ in the later years of advancement, he has no juices rotting within him, waiting for expulsion. This, I state with humility, through personal experience, further to being fortunate in incurring the blessings of the all merciful ‘Parabrahman’ (Almighty Lord) as regards Yoga and Brahmacharya. May his grace shine upon all those wishing for release from the sufferings of ‘Samsara’ (ocean of trans-migratory existence) and may he grant us absorption unto him.

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