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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Brahmacharya understood in this sense is similar to the classical Greek concept of arete ( excellence )

* clearing underlying personality conflicts and centering oneself and ones spiritual journey in clear, well conceived and sustainable values ( that is, thinking of Brahmacharya as an ongoing practice of ' clearing ' analogous to resolving personality complexes and conflicts in psychotherapy )

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

#" Obedience to the Guru without questioning, and strict observance of Brahmacharya — this is the secret of success.

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.

* At the end of this period he is ordained into celibacy ( Brahmacharya ) and is given certain vows ( Pratijna ), the most important of which are chastity, renunciation and service.

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.

In Brahma marriage, once the boy completes his Brahmacharya Ashram ( religious student hood ), he is eligible to get married.

It is common to associate Brahmacharya with celibacy.

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.

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.

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

On 25 March 1898, Swami Vivekananda formally initiated Margaret in the vow of Brahmacharya ( lifelong celibacy ) and gave her the name of " Nivedita ", the dedicated one.

Instead of answering immediately, Pippalada asks them to take up penance and Brahmacharya for one year at his place.

# " 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.

* Swami Narayanananda: Brahmacharya, Its Necessity and Practice for Boys and Girls.

He encouraged the practice of Brahmacharya ( celibacy ).

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

complete Brahmacharya in order to practice them.

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.

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

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.

This sporadic type of planetary radiation is discussed by Burke ( chap. 13 ) and Gallet ( chap. 14 ).

The information provided by the electron paramagnetic effects is then discussed, and finally the nuclear effects are interpreted in terms of various motional-modified models of the Af bond in Af.

The chemical nature of the iodocompounds is discussed below ( pp. 76 et seq. ).

It is therefore necessary to consider the properties of pituitary TSH if the fragmentary chemical information about blood TSH is to be discussed rationally.

Then in 2 we show that any line involution with the properties that ( A ) It has no complex of invariant lines, and ( B ) Its singular lines form a complex consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve, is necessarily of the type discussed in 1.

It is our belief that this readiness to relinquish some control was evidenced by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects in some of the other experimental situations to be discussed below.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

The present status of food preservation by ionizing radiation is discussed by food classes in the following paragraphs.

the way in which the transformation of state depends on the operating variables for the main types of reactors is discussed in the next chapter.

Several theater operators said, however, that there is little likelihood of the subject being discussed during the three-day affair.

Now again in 1961, in England, there is perhaps nothing in the religious sphere so popularly discussed as Christian unity.

But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.

No one anticipates any radical shift in this situation, but questions concerning reading habits, the availability of such data and the places where it is discussed must surely be raised.

One is that people will be more helping when they know that their helping behavior will be communicated to people they will interact with later, is publicly announced, is discussed, or is simply being observed by someone else.

Kempthorne and his students make an assumption of unit treatment additivity, which is discussed in the books of Kempthorne and David R. Cox.

As discussed above, in ZFC, the axiom of choice is able to provide " nonconstructive proofs " in which the existence of an object is proved although no explicit example is constructed.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.