Intellectual work

Hello Amit,

Hope this finds you keeping well. Coming to the answers,

It is good that you are now able to maintain up to two weeks of celibacy as compared to the few days that you used to earlier. The duration of Brahmacharya that one can effortlessly maintain will increase gradually as the negative karma present in the causal body due to past sinful activity goes on getting gradually washed out by the constant efforts the celibate applies in achieving Brahmacharya. Some people are able to succeed with longer periods of celibacy right from the start because their past sexual karma is minimal. Again some others may require a few months or a year of practice to reach the state of unbroken celibacy. What is important is to strive consistently and tirelessly, immaterial of success or failure towards achieving longer and longer periods and finally life long Brahmacharya. This can only be achieved by purity in thought, word and deed and with adequate physical, intellectual activity and spiritual God-meditation/prayer asking God to help us reach absolute purity and continence. It is the urge and desire within to establish oneself in absolute Brahmacharya that matters the most.

As to what is meant by adequate activity at the physical, mental and spiritual planes is something that differs from person to person. Generally speaking, doing justice to one's dharma with honesty and commitment which would be academic studies for a student or work related brain work carried out with dedication for a working professional will most often suffice as adequate mental work for the Brahmachari. When we put in our heart and soul into the work we do, we automatically succeed in giving the required intellectual workout for our mind and brain. The right attitude while indulging in any action is to offer it as a token of service to God. This way we do not try to do anything for ourselves but post our work as service to God for the opportunity he has provided us with to evolve ourselves. This entire experience called life with its various activities is a part of the divine God-drama designed to make man evolve and finally realize his oneness with the creator.

Develop a positive attitude towards life and remind yourself of the fact that your default nature by itself is purity. We are not the body, mind, intellect, ego or consciousness. We are the soul and the default nature of the soul is purity, divinity, knowledge and infinite bliss. It is our long association with sin, ignorance and delusion that has woven a cocoon around us (soul) that has made us forget our default, inherent and absolute nature of bliss, purity and divinity. When ever sexual thoughts or urges try to invade, let us remind ourselves of the fact that we, the soul have no gender, form, body or any other limitation. That we are bliss infinite by ourselves and beyond limitations of the body, mind and intellect. How does it make sense to associate the concept of  finite sex as pleasure for something that is subtler than space, imperishable, infinite and formless? This fact when constantly pondered upon will gradually make us indifferent to sense stimuli and anchor us more firmly in our inherent nature of soul bliss.

If being alone at the computer at nights is tending you to watch porn, install a net filter/web-protection system. Limit use of the computer to constructive activity and immediately get up and shut the system once work is done with. Do not dribble aimlessly on the net. The mind which has become accustomed to porn as a getaway will tempt, trick and lure a person back into sin the moment it is free from constructive work. The internet should be used productively to enhance one's knowledge and as an efficient medium of communication and not as a haven to roam and carelessly hang around.

Those who want to establish real Brhamacharya should develop the habit of retiring to bed early and waking up much before sunrise at 'Brahmi muhurtham'. Rethas (semen) will not stay beyond a limit in the man who is still in bed in a state of Nidraa (sleep) even after the Sun has risen. The Sun represents the source of all vital energy that is responsible for life in our solar system. Correspondingly, Rethas (semen) represents the net sum of all prana (vital energy) within man. So it follows that when man rises early before sunrise and performs Asana/physical exercise and Dhyana (God-meditation) while it's still dark, Rethas (semen) will abound in plenty within him and gets converted to Ojas (divine luster) leading to a powerful intellect, memory, intuition, prosperity and success in all walks of life.

Gradually increase your period of celibacy from 15 days to 20 days, then to 25 days and so on. Once three months of unbroken celibacy without a single slip is achieved, the going gets a little bit easier as regards to the reduction in urge for semen loss. Once a year of unbroken celibacy is achieved the going becomes even more natural. Those who have achieved a year of unbroken Brahmacharya with constant God-meditation have a high chance of leading the celibate mode of life for the years to come provided God wills it.

God bless and have a nice day :-)
Dhananjay