In her book The New Celibacy, Gabrielle Brown states that " abstinence is a response on the outside to what's going on, and celibacy is a response from the inside.

Celibacy was advocated as an ideal rule of life for all monks and nuns by Gautama Buddha, except for Japan where it is not strictly followed due to historical political developments following the Meiji Restoration.

Celibacy also is also the natural state of a pure and advanced devotee of the Lord.

Celibacy as a vocation may be independent from religious vows ( as is the case with consecrated virgins, ascetics and hermits ).

Celibacy is viewed differently by the Catholic Church and the various Protestant communities.

Celibacy not only for religious and monastics ( brothers / monks and sisters / nuns ) but also for bishops is upheld by the Catholic Church traditions.

Celibacy is designed to " consecrate themselves with undivided heart to the Lord and to " the affairs of the Lord, they give themselves entirely to God and to men.

One explanation for the origin of obligatory celibacy is that it is based on Christ's example and on the writings of Paul, who wrote of the advantages celibacy allowed a man in serving the Lord, Celibacy was popularized by the early Christian theologian Origen and Augustine.

Celibacy is required of monastics — monks, nuns and friars — even in a rare system of double cloisters, in which husbands could enter the ( men's ) monastery while their wives entered a ( women's ) sister monastery.

Celibacy among the clergy is a relavtively recent practice: it became Church policy at the Second Lateran Council in 1139.

Celibacy is considered the appropriate behavior for both male and female students during this stage, which precedes the stage of the married householder.

" St. John Chrysostom wrote: "... virginity is better than marriage, however good .... Celibacy is ... an imitation of the angels.

Celibacy is neither encouraged nor discouraged, each member being free to decide his / her own way of life.

Celibacy is neither encouraged nor discouraged, each member being free to decide his / her own way of life.

Celibacy for religious and monastics ( monks and sisters / nuns ) and for bishops is upheld by both the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Christian traditions.

On the other hand, George T. Dennis SJ of Catholic University of America says: " There is simply no clear evidence of a general tradition or practice, much less of an obligation, of priestly celibacy-continence before the beginning of the fourth century " Peter Fink SJ agrees, saying that underlying premises used in the book, Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy, " would not stand up so comfortably to historical scrutiny ".

Celibacy is represented in the Roman Catholic Church as having apostolic authority.

Celibacy is regarded as contrary to the injunction to be fruitful and multiply ( Genesis 2: 18 and Isaiah 45: 18 ).

Celibacy is, however, described by the Jesus Fellowship as “ a precious gem ”.

' Celibacy, Marriage to God ': No marriages are performed in the Peace Mission and celibacy is the expected norm for every member.

Celibacy is respected and the slaughter of animals is forbidden.

* Interviews with Swami Chidananda: The Role of Celibacy in the Spiritual Life

* Jemima Wilkinson: Celibacy and the Communal Life, The Re-Incarnation of the Divine in Female Form, 1758-1819

* Stuart Sovatsky: " Eros, Consciousness and Kundalini: Tantric Celibacy and the Mysteries of Eros ".

The latter verse is the celebrated Savitri, now termed as the Gayatri mantra, with which Savitr was in later times invoked at the beginning of Vedic study.

The language of these texts, termed " Epic Sanskrit ", constitutes the earliest phase of Classical Sanskrit, following the latest stage of Vedic Sanskrit found in the Shrauta Sutras.

The Hindu and Vedic writings also make reference to four ages ( Yuga ) termed: Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kali.

These Santhagara kshatriyas were placed below Vedic kshtriyas in the social hierarchy and were termed " Santha-war ( Sainthwar )", which means " to leave Santha or Sanstha ".

The fact is Brahmabhatt, often termed as Subhatt or Warrior Bhatts in Vedic times, are found all across Indian Subcontinent, Central Asia, and across Europe.

Smarta Sampradaya ( Smarta Tradition, as it is termed in Sanskrit ) is a liberal or nonsectarian denomination of the Vedic Hindu religion which accepts all the major Hindu deities as forms of the one Brahman, in contrast to Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Shaktism, the other three major Hindu sects, which revere Vishnu, Shiva, and Shakti, respectively, as the Supreme Being.

The ancient Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, also termed Itihāsa (" History ") or Mahākāvya (" Great Compositions "), refer to epic poems that form a canon of Hindu scripture.

It is perhaps too late now to talk of mandate because it is inconsistent with what is termed political realism.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

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Cosmic order is termed rta and causal law by karma.

The most lucrative award an architect can receive is the Pritzker Prize, sometimes termed the " Nobel Prize for architecture.

There is still the position, based on the philosophical question of personal identity, termed open individualism, and in some ways similar to the old belief of monopsychism, that concludes that individual existence is illusory, and our consciousness continues existing after death in other conscious beings.

An alloy with four constituents is a quaternary alloy, while a five-part alloy is termed a quinary alloy.

However, another component of alpha radiation is the recoil of the parent nucleus, termed alpha recoil.

An entirely different class of ideas, also termed animistic, is the belief in the world soul anima mundi, held by philosophers such as Schelling and others.

The German spoken today over the range of the former Alemanni is termed Alemannic German, and is recognised among the subgroups of the High German languages.

An electrode through which current flows the other way ( out of the device ) is termed a cathode.

( Binding and subsequent trigger of apoptosis by a molecule is termed positive induction, whereas the active repression or inhibition of apoptosis by a molecule is termed negative induction.

If the angle u1 is very small, O ' 1 is the Gaussian image ; and O ' 1 O ' 2 is termed the longitudinal aberration, and O ' 1R the lateral aberration of the pencils with aperture u2.