Brahmacharya and Karma
Question
Your Highness,
Your very awsome and wonderful teacher in spiritual matters, God must bless you, I have a doubt that If brahmacharya have any connection with Karma, Example In Cinema field there is Actor and Actress are acting together (Now a days Cinema field is an open trend for showing sexual seductional act with nude dress), another example is that the Doctor have to look the opposite gender in connection with their duty, But I heard that some of the Actress and Doctors are Yoga Masters, My doubt is that if they get any Progress in Brahmacharya?
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Answer
One's very existence in this world is a result of karma. There is nothing beyond karma as regards to this finite world. It is because of the presence of karma that we are all born. Those who are beyond karma, having exhausted all their karma (self-realized souls) do not come back to this world. They merge into the Supreme. This is the aim of Yoga and Brahmacharya; to work out past karma without making new troublesome karma and never return to this world of pain and suffering.
If an actor/actress limit their involvement in a scene to professionalism and do not actually get involved at the individual, personal levels, with each other during and after enacting the scene, then they are doing their Dharma (one's duty based on the profession shown by God). Anything beyond this limit will lead to karma.
The same applies to the doctor. If the doctor examines the body of a patient with the professional attitude of curing the patient, it is Dharma or duty. Examining the patient with any other intention leads to karma of the negative kind.
One who is striving for self-realization through the practice of the necessary methods and disciplines is a Yogi and these methods and disciplines may be called as Yoga. Nothing more.
The performance of mere physical postures or Âsanas cannot be called as Yoga as Âsana is only one component of Yoga and not Yoga itself. If actors and actresses only perform such Âsanas (physical postures) and nothing more (not the other components of Yoga) then they may be called 'Âsana performers' and not 'Yoga masters'. The term Yoga has been wrongly assumed to be Âsana and nothing more in public perception. This is incorrect.
Unless all the eight Angâs (components) of Yoga are practiced thoroughly, the activity is not Yoga and one cannot derive progress on a complete scale.
As to whether actors/actresses derive benefit from Âsana in spite of their professions, the degree of benefit would depend on their ability to stay unaffected, unfettered and personally non-involved with each other or with others further to their actions on screen.
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)