Celibacy is the second name of the emancipated state of the Yogi.

A lot of things are said and heard in the world about Brahmacharya, Chastity or Celibacy. According to the customs of Hindu religion, the first fourth part of the human life, i.e. life of up to the age of twenty-five years, is dedicated to the life of celibacy. And Brahmacharya is also the name of an ashram, in which followers are called as Brahamachari. And the life of a Brahmacharya is understood as the life of a person prior to the householder life. During this time of life the Brahmachari is not allowed to have sexual intercourse with the woman or young girl.

Meaning of Celibacy is only taken as - To keep semen safe, without libido only study, scholarship, religious study, self-control, indentilation, virginity etc. But the most apposite meaning of the Brahmacharya, is Brahma meaning God or the Divine and Charya meaning the conduct or behavior or deal or "Behavior with the Divine". This Brahmacharya is the ninth foundation of the True Religion.

"Brahmachari is the same, which is always in Brahman.  His means remain in the law, Maya's injuries endure."

In other words, the identity or recognition of a Brahmachari is that, that he remains absorbed in contemplation of the Brahma. Brahma means the Omnipresent Parmatma, that means "Akhand Jyoti Nirakar", and the Yogi who keeps stuck himself to his practices, who keeps observing the respectable rules of his Yoga and continues to bear the injuries of the Maya, that Yogi is Brahamachari. The Brahmacharya is not to keep the urinating organ fastened merely due to absolute stubbornness.

Although, abstinence on the urinating organ is helpful for yoga and the person, who desires to accomplish Yoga, without restraint of the urinating organ, he only does the same as with quenching or calming his appetite with the vision of the food only. That Yogi, could not attain or receive the result or fruit of that Yoga action. He could not receive the grace of the Divine powers.

But, Brahmacharya is not only this single action. The real nature of Celibacy, the yogi can only experience in the state of absorbency in the Brahma. That state is completely internal. During that time the senses of the action and the mindsets become absorbed in mind. The mind becomes absorbed in the ego. The ego gets absorbed in the heart. The Chitta or the heart gets absorbed in the soul and the soul becomes absorbed in the Parmatama.

Here, when the soul of the Yogi attains union with the God, then the Brahmacharya becomes complete or in other words, it comes to the end. Since the aim of the action being acquired, there's no further need to labour for the same. However, the Yogi has to bind himself with the golden precepts, to keep himself enlightened and in accordance with the Divine rules. Thus to avoid himself falling from the godly state of emancipation.

The mere meaning of sense abstinence is that they become established in the mind and the only meaning of Brahmacharya is establishment in the Brahma, is Kaivalya or absolute unity or beatitude, is emancipation and is salvation. The overall restraint of the mind is Brahmacharya. Thus far, the Brahmacharya is the second name for the liberated or emancipated state of the Yogi.

Paramhans Jiddanand