How to Rise Above Sex

*****There is another important angle to this matter of Brahmacharya ( CELIBACY, CONTINENCE). And that pertains to
your aim and ambition in life. What is it that you want out of life? What great desire dominates
your life? Is there something that is a consuming hunger in you? Do you want to become the
highest musical genius in this world? Or do you want to become the fastest Olympic runner or
weightlifter in this world?

***** No matter what your ambition is, if there is some one overwhelming
or all-consuming hunger in you, then all other problems recede into the background. They do not
present a great difficulty. But, if you do not have such an overwhelming ambition in one
direction, then everything becomes a problem and sex also becomes a problem. 

****Therefore, the
right way of solving this problem of sex is to rise above it so that it becomes something not
important. You have to rise above sex—not wrestle with it, but rise above it. Because, if you do
not have an overall concentrated urge or ambition in life, then the clamour of these little senses
becomes a great din in your life. Your life will always be under that clamour.

**** But, if you have
got an overwhelming urge for something else, then this clamour does not reach you at all,because you are too busy engaging your entire attention in some other direction. 

So, the rightway of solving this situation of sex is to rise above it, by developing great love for God, greatlove for an ideal, developing passion for a pure life, a moral life, an ethical life, an ideal life andnurturing Tivra Mumukshutva for attaining liberation. 

***If intense Mumukshutva is there, then all other things recede into the background. They become less important. So, if you want to attainvictory over the clamour of the senses, you must arouse within yourself a great fire of higher aspiration. Then, what happens? In order to attain that upon which your heart is set, you give yourself so totally to it that you have no time for other things.

 ****Even great scientists do not have this problem, because they are all the time completely absorbed in their scientific research. They do not pay much importance to food or clothing or bathing or anything.

 Why? Because they are all absorbed in, and interested in, something else. That is the way of becoming established in Brahmacharya, in successful Brahmacharya, in effective Brahmacharya 

# H.H. SWAMI CHIDANAND JI MAHARAJ ( DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY , RISHIKESH. INDIA.)