How to attain mental control
Question
Sir,
Sometimes when I see beautiful girls (like while traveling), my brain immediately gets attracted to them, it's like my brain SMILES inside when it sees them. It's an automatic and immediate response on which seemingly I've no choice / control.
So how to attain mental celibacy? ..when my brain is automatically becoming happy on seeing these girls.
Can bahya pranayama help in attaining mental celibacy? How much of bahya pranayam is considered excessive?
I was reading your previous answers and you had written something like that in the first 2 years of practicing brahmacharya, diseases are manifested. Sir what's this? I'm surprised that you had to go through the same experience even when you live (and were living) a healthy lifestyle (waking up early, yoga etc.). But still, from your new experience/knowledge can you please tell that how can these diseases be avoided? Currently I'm not interested in brahmacharya, but in celibacy alone.
Answer
1. After a few years of practicing Yoga & Brahmacharya with meditation, the Yogi becomes wise to the ways of Maya and is able to discern the truth behind the false charm & impermanent beauty of the body to a larger extent. This helps him develop immunity to the spells of Maya to a better extent. Till then, one has to constantly remind himself of its falsity and exert. Bahya Kumbhaka (exhaling and not breathing) can be practiced for short periods of within a minute based on ones comfort if one so wishes.
2. Diseases which manifest during the initial years of Brahmacharya are the result of karma which surfaces in the form of toxins. Such toxins have been ingrained in this or previous existences due to ones wrong actions. When the body purifies through the conserved Prana via Pranayama, the Nâdi-s (astral energy channels) which are toxified and partially blocked in the non-Yogi suddenly start getting cleansed. This cleaning results in those toxins surfacing. When a particular toxin surfaces, the disease or illness represented by that toxin briefly manifests and then goes away. This is how one has to undo the impurity embedded. It is inevitable and a part of karmic cleansing.
Karmic diseases or illnesses are not avoidable. They are a part of ones destiny and have to be gone through.
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)