TIPS FOR BRAHMACHARYA

Primarily chanting is the most important principle. But, some secondary principles can help
MAYA CREATES HAVOC THROUGH
CURIOSITY

Śyāmasundara: What about the... What is curiosity? What is that feeling of curiosity

Prabhupāda: Curiosity is inquisitiveness = "What is that? What is that?”

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CURIOSITY
Śyāmasundara: Is that present in the spiritual world also

Prabhupāda:Yes. Even there is, the answer is already there

Śyāmasundara: Even the answer is there, still there’s curiosity

Prabhupāda:Yes

Ātreya Ṛṣi: And then the original curiosity is the curiosity to know Kṛṣṇa

Prabhupāda:Yes.
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MAYA CREATES HAVOC THROUGH

CURIOSITY

Curiosity is a powerful ability of the subtle body. If it is diverted to sense grati cation, it
creates havoc. Sample thoughts

“I am curious to know and feel what sort of happiness the sexual enjoyment will give

“Let me have the carnal knowledge of a woman once. Then I will be able to root out this
sexual impulse and desire completely. This sexual curiosity is troubling me very much

“Let me see how a man & a woman take pleasure, then I can develop detachment!”
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CURIOSITY
This type of curiosity pushes a Brahmachari into strong desire for enjoymen

Satisfying curiosity by this method is second class. One should hear from Shastra and gain
appropriate wisdom to kill this unnecessary curiosit

Curiosity should be on Brahman. Brahma Jijnasa. On Krishn

Take up quest for transcendental knowledge by dovetailing this force of curiosity. Be

determined to do some knowledge projects like “Creation,” “Universal Structure,” or
“Chanting,” etc
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SEX URGE IS A CREATIVE FORCE

Sex urge is a creative force. Unless you are inspired by spiritual ideals, it is dif cult to keep
the sexual instinct in check. Direct the sex energy to the higher spiritual channel. It will be
sublimated.

Srila Prabhupada explains how to sublimate or use the creative force

Prabhupāda:Yes. That creative force is there, so use that creative force for satisfying Kṛṣṇa.
Then you’ll get credit. But here they’re using the creative force for satisfying their senses.

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USING CREATIVE FORCE FOR KRISHNA

Prabhupāda: (…) The creative force, the chemical knowledge, chemist or physist, they advance
the creative... Now they should use it for Kṛṣṇa. Just like chemist or a physist, by chemical
statement they may prove that it is Kṛṣṇa, the original. Then that creative force will be..

idaṁ hi puṁsas tapasaḥśrutasya vā

sviṣṭasya sūktasya ca buddhi-dattayoḥ

avicyuto 'rthaḥ kavibhir nirūpit

yad-uttamaśloka-guṇānuvarṇanam [SB 1.5.22]

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USING CREATIVE FORCE FOR KRISHNA

Idaṁ hi puṁsas tapasaḥśrutasya vā. Here we also, we discover so many things by tapasya. It
is also tapasya, that "These people are dying; we are going to do like that." That is tapasya. So
they’re discovering something after many years' researches---that is called tapasya. Idaṁ hi
puṁsas tapasaḥ śrutasya, education; sviṣṭasya, gentle behavior. Sūktasya. All good things

idaṁ hi puṁsas tapasaḥśrutasya vā

sviṣṭasya sūktasya ca buddhi-dattayoḥ [SB 1.5.22]

USING CREATIVE FORCE FOR KRISHNA

Intelligence, charity---these are all good things, tapasya. Hmm? But how these things will be
successful? Avicyuto 'rthaḥ kavibhir nirūpito: by kavi, by great sages, saintly persons, they
have decided that by all these creative forces, you try to describe the
Supreme Lord.
CONTROL IMAGINATION OR
VISUALISATION
Mind has the ability for visualisation or imagination

If one visualises without the basis of Shastra, it is speculation. It creates false reality or
illusio

Imaginations and visualisations increase sex appetite & desires.

It increases the value of sex unusually though it is not true in reality

What is one paisa will be shown as a crore. This difference in value is the major cause for
divorces
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CONTROL IMAGINATION OR
VISUALISATION

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur’s example of a circus or village fai

This shows how imaginations or visualisations increase the hope and creates false valu

Whole village gets beaten up because of illusory calculation

One should use this ability and visualise on the basis of Shastra.

Some positive visualisations are:

SEX IS MAYA SUKHAYA, BHARAM

UDVAHATO VIMUDHA
One should contemplate on the statements of great devotees like Prahlada Mahara

He calls the sex pleasure as Maya Sukhay

One should contemplate the nature of sex life on the basis of SB statement

Illusory pleasur

Temporar

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Full of miseries
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 BEAUTY IS A PRODUCT OF THE

IMAGINATION.
Beauty and ugliness are false imaginations of the mind.

Beauty is only a mental concept. Real beauty is in the self only. It is in Krishna only

Beauty is a product of mental creation. Beauty is a product of the imagination.

Beauty is skin-deep only. It will soon fade, the hair will become gray and the skin will soon
be lled with wrinkles.

Srila Prabhupada example of a Beauty & Truth

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BEAUTY OF A WOMAN - EXAGGERATED

One danger with reading karmi books, channels, etc is that there will be greatly exaggerated
descriptions of women and se

Descriptions like “damsels with bewitching eyes”, “face like the moon”, “rosy cheeks and
honeyed lips,” “Voice of a cuckoo,” etc are false and imaginar

Where is the beauty in the dead body, in old women, in sick ladies? 

Poets/writers/ADs describe in their fanciful, passionate moods that honey ows from the
lips of a young, beautiful woman. These are false narrations
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DANGER SIGNALS

Women has poisoned arrows in her eyes. A lusty glance can take away the heart of a mal

Our dreams are an indication of strong sex impulses

Secluded places with woma

Long relationships with woma

Casual chats or talks or msgs with woma

Thinking that women that he is dealing is older!

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