Through the four ashramas, or stages of life ( Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vaanprastha, Sanyaasa ), a person also seeks to fulfill the four essentials ( puruṣārtha ) of kama ( sensual pleasures ), artha ( worldly gain ), dharma, and moksha ( liberation from reincarnation or rebirth ).

The Sacred Fig | peepal tree twig in his right hand marks his entry into the Brahmacharya stage of life.

Brahmacharya (; Devanagari: ब ् रह ् मचर ् य behavior that leads to Brahman ) is one of the four stages of life in an age-based social system as laid out in the Manu Smrti and later Classical Sanskrit texts in Hinduism.

Brahmacharya ashram is the life stage that occupies the first 20 or 25 years of life.

Brahmacharya is the stage when the young child leads a student life ( ideally in the Gurukula, the household of the Guru ).

Brahmacharya is the first of the four phases of human life, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha and Sannyasa, prescribed by Manusmriti for the dvija castes in the Hindu system of life.

Among the sramanic traditions, Brahmacharya is the term used for the practice of self-imposed celibacy that is generally considered an essential prerequisite for spiritual practice. These characteristics correspond to Western notions of the religious life as practised in monastic settings but in the Brahma Kumaris and Prajapita Brahma Kumaris religion, it is practised by married couples and householders too, as a way of formalizing sexual behavior into a conscious, co-creative practice rather than merely an unconscious habit.

For a Grihastha ( household life ) this stage comes after completion of household duties, but one can enter into it straight from second that is Brahmacharya ( student life ) ashram.

The book begins by describing Yogananda's childhood family life to his search for his guru to the establishment of his first school, Yogoda Satsanga Brahmacharya Vidyalaya to his journey to America where he lectured to thousands, established Self-Realization Fellowship and visited with Luther Burbank, a renowned botanist to whom this book is dedicated.

He took to the life of Brahmacharya, or celibacy, at a very young age.

The stages of life prescribed in the Vedic scriptures are Brahmacharya Ashrama, Grihastha Ashrama, Vanaprastha Ashrama and Sannyasa Ashrama.

The phase of " Garhastha " is preceded by the phase of Brahmacharya and followed by the phase of Vanaprastha.

The first of these stages, known as Brahmacharya, roughly translates as chastity.

; Brahmacharya ( Celibacy ): To exercise control over senses ( including mind ) from indulgence.

The Hindu tradition of Brahmacharya places great emphasis on abstinence as a way of harnessing the energy of body and mind towards the goal of spiritual realization.

He initiated several other followers into Brahmacharya.

In one of the conversations with his childhood friend Priya Nath Sinha, he attributes his physical and mental strengths, and eloquence, to the practice of Brahmacharya.

Among the Hindu monastic as well as sramanic traditions, Brahmacharya is the term used for the practice of self-imposed celibacy that is generally considered an essential prerequisite for spiritual practice.

Brahmacharya is discussed in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as one of the 5 Yamas, the foundational commitments for the practice of yoga.

According to the Yoga Sutras, the end-result or fruit of Brahmacharya practised to perfection is unbounded energy or vitality.

Many yogic techniques, such as meditation and asanas ( e. g. shirsasana ) can help one to achieve Brahmacharya interpreted as celibacy or strict control of sexual desires.

Brahmacharya is also observed to contain one's sensual desires for food and taste, as well as materialism.

# " That power comes to him who observes unbroken Brahmacharya for a period of twelve years, with the sole object of realising God I have practiced that kind of Brahmacharya myself, and so a screen has been removed, as it were, from my brain.

#" Every boy should be trained to practice absolute Brahmacharya and then, and then alone faith and Shraddha will come.

Chastity in thought, word and deed always and in all conditions is what is called Brahmacharya.

#" In order to attain to ideal Brahmacharya one has in the beginning to observe strict rules regarding chastity.

Moksha, although the ultimate goal, is emphasized more in the last two stages of life, while artha and kama are considered primary only during Grihastha.

After the death of Ramakrishna, many of his disciples returned home and were inclined towards a Grihastha ( family-oriented ) life.

During the sannyasa phase of life, a person abandons fire, or Agnihotra, allowed to the Grihastha ashram or householder phase of life.

Vanaprastha ashram is the stage of life in the Vedic ashram system, when a person one gradually withdraws from the world.

In their quest to attain the spiritual goal of life, some Hindus choose the path of monasticism ( Sannyasa ).

Sannyasa ( Devanagari: स ं न ् य ा स, ) is the life stage of the renouncer within the Hindu scheme of āśramas.

Sannyasa, a life of full dedication to spiritual pursuits, is the highest stage of life in the varnasrama society.

At this point in his life he traveled to India where he was initiated into various Buddhist, Hindu and Sufi sects and became Sannyasa.

It also teaches that desires cause rebirth in the world and one who renounced all desires ( by taking Sannyasa ), all desires end in this life itself, thus implying that there is no rebirth to such person ( verse 3. 2. 2 ).

It refers to the ashrama ( stage of life ) of a Sannyasi, before he is initiated into Sannyasa ( renunciation ).

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

After four centuries of urban life, this abrupt climatic change evidently caused abandonment of Tell Leilan, regional desertion, and collapse of the Akkadian empire based in southern Mesopotamia.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

Under extreme climatic conditions, a biennial plant may complete its life cycle in a very short period of time ( e. g. three or four months instead of two years ).

The first four films are historical dramas set, respectively, in the time of Christ, the U. S. Civil War, 16th-century Spain, and the late 19th-century South — the latter a fictionalized treatment of the life of Methodist evangelist, Robert Sayers Sheffey.

These include eliminating the positions of appointed senators and senators for life, granting the President authority to remove the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, and reducing the presidential term from six to four years while also disabling immediate re-election.

They can have a life span of 8 – 10 years in the wild, but live less than four years on average, as they are " a favourite food of jaguar, puma, ocelot, eagle and caiman ".

Gandy's curiosity about, and analysis of, " cellular automata ", " Conway's game of life ", " parallelism " and " crystalline automata " led him to propose four " principles ( or constraints ) ... which it is argued, any machine must satisfy.

Oddly, the number 3 was involved in a wreck almost identical to that which took the life of Earnhardt: being spun out, colliding with another vehicle and being turned into the outside wall in turn number four.

As well as the friars, Dominican sisters live their lives supported by four common values, often referred to as the Four Pillars of Dominican Life, they are: community life, common prayer, study and service.

After consoling his fate by the science of numbers for four years, he ended his life.

By the English Middle Ages the term had been expanded to include not only the message, but also the New Testament which contained the message, as well as more specifically the four books of the Bible in which the life, death and resurrection of Jesus are portrayed.

The four of them find an embattled Ash, who is, seemingly, slowly being driven insane due to his encounter with the demon, such as hallucinating that the room comes to life and begins laughing hysterically at him.

The fundamental problem is that the last four terms ( fraction of planets with life, odds life becomes intelligent, odds intelligent life becomes detectable, and detectable lifetime of civilizations ) are completely unknown.

Each of the four is shaken at the realization of how life has changed them.

Christians teach that the four canonical gospels are an “ accurate and authoritative ” representation of the life of Jesus.

Thus began one of the most productive periods in Telemann's life: during his tenure at Eisenach he composed a wealth of instrumental music ( sonatas and concertos ), and numerous sacred works, which included four or five complete annual cycles of church cantatas, 50 German and Italian cantatas, and some 20 serenatas.