Brahmacharya - quotable quotes

1. "You are not enjoying the happiness of the Soul but instead you have asked for happiness from the body. There is no problem if the happiness derived is from the Soul, but you have borrowed from the body and so you will have to pay it back. This is a loan. Whatever pleasure you derived from that loan, you will have to repay by an equivalent amount of suffering. Whatever has been borrowed from the body will have to be paid back to the body." - Dadashri

2. "After the unbearable heat of a day why is it that the cattle soak in the dirty muddy waters ? The deep desire for coolness from heat makes them forget the stench of the dirty muddy water. Similarly modern day humans who suffer from the constant struggles and tensions of daily life at work and at at home, seek a diversion from the fire of such tensions and a release through sex and forget its consequences over and over again !" - Dadashri

3. "When hunger dire stomach pinches
Gruel and meanest rice like nectar taste
Even so the keenest pleasure springs
Not from the inherent nature of objects
But from the intensity of the desire."
- Sri Ramana Maharshi

4. Q: How does one reach the Supreme State?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: "By renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the Supreme. Whatever pleases you, keeps you back. Whatever pleases you keeps you back. Until you realize the unsatisfactoriness of everything, its transiency and limitation, and collect your energies in one great longing, ever the first step is not made. On the other hand, the integrity of the desire for the Supreme is by itself a call from the Supreme. Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and cease forging the chains that bind you."

5. "Not knowing the bliss of self-awareness
Eristic people highly rate sex and
Such like pleasures. Living thus
They yearn for these even when they die."
-Sri Ramana Maharshi

6. "Eagerly seizing a bare, dry bone
The foolish dog bites it with sharp teeth
Tears his own mouth, tastes its own blood
And gloating says, 'Nothing else
Is as sweet as bone'
-Sri Ramana Maharshi

7. "Under the tree the shade is pleasant; out in the open the heat is scorching. A person who has been going about in the sun feels cool when he reaches the shade. Someone who keeps on going from the shade into the sun and then back into the shade is a fool. A wise man stays permanently in the shade." - Ramana Maharshi

8. "Through extreme clarity laden thinking processes, it has become established with finality and incontrovertibly siddha that uninterrupted bliss exists through the support, cover and grace of shuddha pure Gnan and that is the only place, where absolute samadhi— without any effects from physical, mental or externally induced disturbances—lies. The view that a woman (sex) is the highest source of pleasure is only the result of the imagination that arises out of deluded and tinted avaran vision drashti. But she is not that for sure. The location (vulva) by which one enjoys the pleasure through a woman is such that if one ‘sees’ it with discriminative vision, it will become evident that it is not even worthy of a vomiting act." - Krupadev Shrimad Rajchandra