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.

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.

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.

* 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.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

In light of Wesley's episcopal consecration, the Methodist Church can lay a claim on apostolic succession, as understood in the traditional sense.

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By rationalisation, Weber understood first, the individual cost-benefit calculation, second, the wider, bureaucratic organisation of the organisations and finally, in the more general sense as the opposite of understanding the reality through mystery and magic ( disenchantment ).

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For instance, there is no set in IST whose elements are precisely the standard integers ( here standard is understood in the sense of the new predicate ).

According to the Hindu philosophy the essence of God or Brahman can never be understood or known since Brahman is beyond both existence and non-existence, transcending and including time, causation and space, and thus can never be known in the same material sense as one traditionally ' understands ' a given concept or object.

A summary of such a view might be that, the present is an encounter " in God " with new possibilities ( where " God " is sometimes not understood " theistically ", in the sense of a " person "), and the past is thus a record or remembrance " by God " of the experiences of existent beings.

Their literature has referred to their organization collectively as God's " prophet " on earth ; this is understood, however, in the sense of declaring their interpretation of God's judgments from the Bible along with God's guidance of His Holy Spirit.

His first point is to argue that phyletic gradualism — understood in the sense that evolution proceeds at a single uniform rate of speed, called " constant speedism " by Dawkins — is a " caricature of Darwinism " and " does not really exist.

Some argue that The United Methodist Church can lay a claim on apostolic succession, as understood in the traditional sense ,.

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