Celibacy

When Ramprasad had taken a pledge to work for the liberation of the country by fighting against the British he had also taken a vow to remain celibate all his life. He remained true to his vow and never even once considered starting a family or getting entangled in a love affair. He firmly believed that a married man or one involved in romantic liaison can not fully dedicate himself to the cause of the country. So, he always recruited youngmen into the organisation who were unmarried and were willing to remain celibate.
Arya Samaj gave great importance to celibacy for moral rectitude and to attain higher spiritual level. Ramprasad always advised his friends and the followers to shun sex because he believed that it had great corrupting influence. He wanted the youth and the students to realise the uplifting power of celibacy.
On this subject once Ramprasad Bismil wrote—“In the present time this country is in a bad shape socially. 99 percent of the rich and upper class parents breed children and leave them in the care of the maids and servants. The servants spoil and destroy them, the priceless treasures.
If Gods takes mercy and some children survive the mishandling then there is filth in the neighbourhood to surely misguide them.
The survivors reach the schools where they learn all kinds of bad habits from the rotten ones.
By the time a youngman reaches college he is already a slave of all the vices including self indulgence. Then, they search in newspapers for sex drugs advertised by the quacks. Thus they waste money, health and the peace of mind. 95% suffer from weak eyesight. Others develop other kinds of physical infirmities. Some even wore dark glasses for the sake of the fashion.
Looking around for beauties to ogle at becomes one’s pastime and become so called admirers of beauty. There is no youngman without some messy romance attached to him. You can hear such dirty affairs that even mentioning them makes you blush.
If a student tries to become a principled one or makes an effort to gain education the circumstances and environment work against him. They are forced to believe that there was no harm in having a little fun. If some weakness result it could be set right by taking a drug or rich diet, so they think. It is the greatest mistake.
There is a saying in English—‘Only for once and for ever’.
The medicines don’t help. Eggs, fruit juices, cod oils and meat also prove useless.
The real importance is that of building up a character. The students and the teachers must take pity on the miserable state of the country and try to instill moral values.
The root of the physical powers is celibacy. Without it one’s life becomes dry and boring. The learning power and intelligence is the products of celibacy. All the great man of our mythological heritage in some way practised celibacy and attained super human powers. Their sagas are alive even after thousands of years.
The biographies of Parshurama, Rama, Laxmana, Krishna, Bheema, Christ, Rama Krishna, Dayananda etc are the living proofs of the power of celibacy.
A student who falls victim to vices at early age or who corrupt their character in bad company and who try unsuccessfully to reform when the wise counsel prevails such students should not lose hope.
Human life is pool of exercises. The mind is a whirlpool of thoughts, ideas and emotions. The more fascinating ideas get tried first of all. The repeated exercise of the same act robs it of the desire input which is replaced by spontaneous inspiration. Such inspired repetition is what we call exercise. The human character is the sum total of such exercises of responses which are better known as habits. The habits can be good or bad. If our mind is generating good thoughts they result in good habits. Bad thoughts become bad habit in the same process. The mind is the generator of desires and a man strives to fulfil those desires.
Naturally the exercises of the parents or their habits inspire their offsprings into the same direction. Secondly the exercises are also influenced by the circumstances. Thirdly, the efforts also create exercises or build habits. The strength of this factor can reform the inherited negative habits or exercises.
Our life is the product of these exercises. If our exercises are not in tune with out work the life becomes tedious and miserable. The exercises of writing, study, dressing etc are living examples.
If we, like our early stage take care in gradual exercising the course of the life will feel easy. A child learns to stand up and walk with great difficulty paying the price in painful falls. But the exercise trains him into a walker who walks for miles smoothly in everyday of his life. The travellers just go on walking. Some of them even sleep for short periods while walking. (Many species of birds put their wings in auto-pilot mode and go to sleep in flight. For example, Albatross). By keeping the mind clean of evil ideas, the exercises of putting the conscience to noble thoughts will surely succeed. Every student or a youngman for the purpose of practicing celibacy is required to lead a regulated life in respect of diet and other activities.
Read the biographies of the saints and the noble men. Don’t waste time in reading romantic novels and love affairs. Don’t sit idle. Whenever amorous thoughts haunt one, he should drink cold water and go for a walk or go to some acquaintance to divert the mind in usual conversation.
Don’t read porno in the form of gazals, couplets or love songs. No romantic literature. Don’t set your eyes on women or girl. Don’t even meet you mother or sister in twosome privacy. Don’t snuggle, cuddle, hug or touch handsome friends or classmates.
The students must leave bed one hour before the sunrise, answer the nature’s call, exercise and take a walk in the open air. It would be far better if one prays to God after the morning bath taken after answering the nature’s call.
Always bathe in well water. If well water is not available heat water to make it lukewarm in winter and during summers cold water is alright.
After bath rub the body with rough towel or coarse cloth. Take refreshments after the prayer or meditation. Keep it light. Some fruit, dry fruits, milk or the best will be porridge. Then study. Lunch between 10-11 a.m.
Don’t eat meat, fish, fries, spicy, sour, left overs and greasy foods. Stay away from onion, garlic, red chillies, mango chutneys or over spiced dishes. Eat simple foods. Avoid dry eatables. Eat much green leafy preparations as you can.
Chew the food well. Too hot or too cold foods are also no good. After coming back from schools or college take rest for an hour. Study for some time before going to play. Roam about in fresh open air. Keep distance from crowdy market places. Go for the fresh air.
Relieve yourself in the evenings too. Do a little meditation and eat light dinner. At night take some fruit of milk only. Wet dreams are caused by over eating at dinner…’
Note—Traditional view in India on the celibacy is a bit overdrawn. It believes that sexual exercises saps away the very basic life force. The celibacy results in preservation and accumulation of this life force which leads to celibate person becoming a power house making him capable of super physical, intellectual and spiritual deeds. The modern science and medical opinion do not confirm this theory. It takes sex as a basic drive and a natural exercise.