Incredible Powers of Brahmcharaya

• What is the Highest Penance?  
• What has been eulogized by the sages?
• What is the source of zeal, prosperity and supernatural powers? 
• What is the prime source of strength & bliss?

                Answer of all above questions is Brahmacharya 

• The dejected youth of today who suffer from dreaded diseases such as loss of semen and wet dreams and losing their power. 
• In a class we may have 30 students. One comes first and the other last. Have we ever imagined why all the students do not come first! The teacher was the same... the education was the same,why because some how he/she might have wastes his precious energy in a form of semen by getting in some trap of lust.

Preservation of Semen Promotes Longevity:

Semen is like the emperor of this bodily kingdom. If this king is strong and powerful, enemies in the form of diseases can never attack this kingdom. Diseases afflict the body only if the semen, the king, is weak. This is why it is written in the scriptures:

                          मरणं िबन्दोपातेन जीवनं िबन्दधारणातु ् |

“Death is hastened by expending semen and life is prolonged by its preservation.”

  Jain scriptures term the lack of brahmacharya as a grave sin. 

                              अबंभचिरयं घोरं पमायं दरिहिठ्ठयमु ् |

`Non observance of brahmacharya is a grave sin.‟     (The Dasha Vaikalika Sutra : 6.17) 

In „Ayurveda‟, brahmacharya is considered to be the source of supreme power: „Brahmacharya is the Supreme strength.‟ 

Lord Shiva has even gone to the extent of saying that it is only due to the power of brahmacharya that He has attained such an elevated state of glory: