Re: Struggling in Brahmacharya

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Chanting the names of the Lord. Nityananda x 108, Gauranga x 108, Hare Krsna x 108 x 16 will help you.

Listening to Bhajans and Kirtans also help purify the heart. Here's a link on this site to a lot of music files: http://nitaai.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3047#top

Reading the Chaitanya Bhagavata is also good, but some of the things you may read in there may bewilder you without proper explainations of the Lord's activities. Here's a link to the whole translation: http://nitaaiveda.com/Compiled_and_Imp_ … lation.htm

Finally, following the four regulative principals.

1. No Meat Eating - It's not just because of bad karma we don't eat meat, but also it is tamasic and brings us to the platform of the lower modes, where the sex drive is much stronger. This also includes fish and eggs. Also, some foodstuffs you may buy in stores may have hidden meat inside them. For instance, mono and di-glycerides are either made from vegatables or animals. The best foods to buy are fresh and raw foods. Try to avoid buying ready made foods, and if you do, make sure you check the ingredients.

2. No Intoxication - Drugs and alcohols are the major products that would fall in this category. Caffeinated beverages are also here, as well as chocolate (yes, chocolate). Sugar may also be considered intoxicant because it can be addictive, but it's easier to regulate and you have to eat a lot of it to get addicted. Intoxicants are primarily raja-guna and secondarily tamo-guna. The sex drive is just as strong in rajo-guna than in tamo-guna.

Watch out for white sugar, as it's possibly tamasic because they grind up animal bones and throw it in the sugar. Brown sugar is the same. An alternative to chocolate would be using carob. If you take equal parts of carob powder, raw honey, and unsalted butter, you get a nice chocolate alternative. Carob is also sattvic. Check the packaging on teas, even the ones that say decaffeinated have some caffeine in it.

3. No Illicit Sex - Sex is used only for procreation, and nothing else. One must always remember that these material bodies are made of nothing but bile, blood, mucus, pus, stool, and various other nasty things. It's only because it's put together and constructed in a nice way that it takes on the appearance of a beautiful body. It's like an artist taking a bunch of garbage and combining them together to make a "beautiful" work of art; however, garbage is still garbage.

4. No Gambling - Pretty self-explanitory, nothing much to do with sex, but gambling places also tend to have some of the above mentioned things, so...

Hope this helps out well. Read this post two or three times because I've said a lot here and I want you to understand everything.

Hare Krsna!

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