Celibacy Dictionary

celibacy: Complete sexual abstinence. Also the state of a person who has vowed to remain unmarried.

See: brahmachari, brahmacharya.

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Celibacy

Abstaining from sexual relations, hence, remaining unmarried, as part of a religious vocation. Most frequently celibacy is required for priesthood or membership in religious associations.

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Brahmacharya - Celibacy.

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BRAHMACHARYA: celibacy

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sannyasi

A man in the renounced order, the final stage of spiritual progress in the varnashrama system. Sannyasis take a vow of lifetime celibacy.

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Brahmacharin: is a yogi who observes complete celibacy.

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Brahmachari (Sanskrit) A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student.

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A Yoga Dictionary from Abhyasa to Yukti.

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

BRAHMACHARYA: Practice of celibacy. Purity in thought, word and deed.

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Brahmacarya

Lit., Brahma or purified life, usually connoting the practice of celibacy.

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Eunuch

A castrated male. Voluntary castration is associated either with ascetic vows, resulting in permanent celibacy, or with some forms of priesthood.

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Essenes

An early Jewish sect (second century BC-AD first century) known for their communism, apparent celibacy, and concern for purity. It is commonly believed that they were the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but \tTheir identification with Qumran is controversial.

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brahmachari (m), brahmacharini (f): One who moves in Brahman; that is, one who continually fixes the mind on the eternal Truth. The more common meaning is student, or one who practices spiritual discipline and celibacy.

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Yama:

Yama: ... non-violence, honesty, celibacy and non-acceptance of gifts. Baba says, "This is the meaning usually given to this word. But I would say that Yama is really the giving up of attachment to the body and the senses." (SSS-IV)

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Dharma: A term of many meanings, including "law", "virtue", and "righteousness". In general, dharma means the religious discipline for the four orders of life: maintaining celibacy and studying, family life, a devout and renounced life (but living with the spouse), and total renunciation for God realization.

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Brahmacharya:

Brahmacharya: practice of celibacy. Purity in  thought, word and deed.

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Tantric Celibacy: Going All the Way With Tantric Celibacy

Tantric yoga, as a system of rituals, exercises, and philosophical teachings, was developed over the past 2,500 years in a practical search for profound feeling and awareness. Just as a modern scientist might spend years on a single research problem, tantric yogis might dwell on a certain feeling for hours a day, plumbing its every nuance and what it told them about existence. They became experts in the arts of feeling and concentration.

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Hinduism and Celibacy

Hinduism considers celibacy (brahmacharya) as an important virtue and an essential aspect of spiritual life. In ancient India, students who were engaged in the study of the Vedas and Brahman were exhorted to observe strict celibacy. Since control of desires was considered essential for self realization and sexual desire being the ultimate of all desires, observation of celibacy became an important feature of Hindu spiritualism. The idea that a student of Brahman should be a strict celibate became so ingrained in the mind of people that over a period of time the word Brahmacharya became synonymous more with the idea of celibacy than with that of the study of Brahman.

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