Practice after first year

Dear Dhananjay,

Today I’ve almost completed my first year of unbroken Brahmacharya. I want to thank you for all the valuable advice you give, without it I would not have entered this wonderful path! My mind feels calm and clean now. I’m very happy that I can talk with women without having impure thoughts dominating my mind. Sometimes I have improper thoughts, but they arise and dissolve very quikly, I don’t want to have anything to do with them. Also, it is much clearer for me what I must to do with my life, it’s almost obvious, and many times I know without a doubt what the right (or wrong) course of action is. When I meditate my mind becomes very tranquil and I just want to sit in silence for a long time.

I have two questions:

1) How do I proceed from here? What are the dangers that I should be aware of, since I have read many times about yogis who fall from the path even after a long time of practice.

2) I know I should be careful with women. But sometimes life brings me in circumstances that I have to deal with them, I can’t avoid it. I practice meditation on the foulness of the human body (both my own and theirs), I practice seeing them as sisters and I practice restraint of the senses. But many girls and women are attracted to me, maybe because I practice like this and therefore they feel safe with me. How should I handle this? Sometimes I have feelings of friendship for them and it’s like they intuitively know that they should not approach me for a relationship. In fact, they never do, they are always very respectful but I know they like me very much. I’m sometimes scared I will do something wrong.