The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission
How the Yogi Relinquishes the Body 9-13
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 8 - Akshara Brahma Yoga - Sloka 11
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| Naimisaranyam |
Yadaksharam veda vedah vadanti vishanti yad yatayah veetaragah I
Yad icchantah brahmacharyam charanti tatte padam sangrahena pravakshaye II sloka 11
That which the knowers of veda call the Imperishable, and into which enter the sanyasins, self controlled and freed from attachment, and desiring which they lead a life of continence, that I shall declare to you with all brevity.
The knowers of the veda state that the Imperishable Brahman is the substratum of the perishing universe. Sanyasins are they who are not tainted by worldly desires and who live a life of rigid continence.
Through Brahmacharya or continence the physical energy in man gets converted into spiritual energy. The faculty of understanding gets keen thereby. Intuition is the outcome of that exalted discipline.
He who wants to become spiritual should not even look at lustfully at the picture of the woman. Spirituality is not where the lust is. The sadhaka established in brahmacharya develops a faculty known as the medha which promotes his spiritual knowledge
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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