"Abandone a procura por Deus, pela criação e por outros assuntos de natureza semelhante. Procure por ele tomando a si mesmo como ponto de partida. Aprenda quem está dentro de você que torna tudo seu e diga: “Meu Deus, minha mente, meu pensamento, minha alma, meu corpo.” Aprenda as fontes de tristeza, alegria, amor, ódio (...) Se investigar com cuidado esses assuntos encontrará Deus em si mesmo."

Monoimus

What am I telling you?

All at once the living die.

How do they live in illusion?

The rich become poor,

kings are overthrown,

everything changes.

The world is illusion.

Let me not speak so negatively.

The resurrection is different.

It is real,

it stands firm.

It is revelation of what is,

A transformation of things,

A transition into newness.

Incorruptibility [flows] over corruption,

light flows over darkness, swallowing it,

Fullness fills what it lacks.

These are symbols and images of resurrection.

This brings goodness.

"O bem supremo é imortal, não desaparecerá e não está familiarizado com tédio ou arrependimento, pois uma alma correta não muda nunca, não se aborrece, não se altera, porque sempre seguiu o caminho certo. Ao contrário disso, o prazer quanto mais deleita, logo se extingue. Sendo limitado, fica logo satisfeito. Sujeito ao tédio, logo depois do primeiro ímpeto já se mostra fadigado. Não demonstra estabilidade porque é fugaz. Assim, não pode ter consistência aquilo que aparece e desaparece como um relâmpago, destinado a findar no mesmo instante em que se faz presente. Em verdade, o fim já está próximo quando começa."

Sêneca

"Portanto, podes declarar resolutamente que o supremo bem é a harmonia da alma, porque as virtudes devem estar onde estão a harmonia e a unidade; os vícios são aqueles que discordam."

Sêneca

"Quem se aproxima da virtude demonstra ter índole nobre. Ao contrário, quem segue o prazer demonstra ser fraco, degenerado, propenso ao vício mais sórdido, a não ser que haja quem o faça enxergar a diferença entre os prazeres e, dessa maneira, possa aprender quais deles são os que se encaixam nos limites da necessidade natural e quais os imoderados e insaciáveis, aqueles que quanto mais procurados mais se tornam exigentes.

Que a virtude tenha precedência, pois, assim, estaremos em segurança. O prazer excessivo prejudica; na virtude não há de se temer o excesso, porque ela mesma contém em si a medida adequada. Não poderia ser um bem o que padece por sua própria magnitude."

Sêneca

"Devemos saber suportar com espírito forte tudo o que por lei universal nos é dado a enfrentar. É nossa obrigação suportar as condições da vida mortal e não nos perturbarmos com o que não está em nosso poder evitar. Nascemos em um reino onde obedecer a deus significa liberdade."

"Para concluir, a verdadeira felicidade consiste na virtude. O que essa virtude te aconselha? Ela considera como bem apenas o que está unido à virtude e como mau o que tem ligação com a maldade. Mais ainda, manda que sejas inabalável, quer frente ao mal, quer junto ao bem, de forma a que possas imitar deus dentro dos limites de tua própria capacidade. O que ganhas com isso? Privilégios dignos dos deuses. Não serás forçado a nada. Não terás necessidade de nada. Serás livre, seguro e imutável. Nada tentarás executar em vão. Tudo ocorrerá conforme o teu desejo. Nada será contrário aos teus desejos nem à tua vontade."

“God, having created the universe, then created the divisions, the worlds, and various gods and goddesses, whom he appointed to certain parts of the universe. He then took a mysterious transparent substance, out of which he created human souls. He appointed the souls to the astral region, which is just above the physical region.

He then assigned the souls to create life on Earth. He handed over some of his creative substance to the souls and commanded them to contribute to his creation. The souls then used the substance to create the various animals and forms of physical life. Soon after, however, the souls began to overstep their boundaries; they succumbed to pride and desired to be equal to the highest gods.

God was displeased and called upon Hermes to create physical bodies that would imprison the souls as a punishment for them. Hermes created human bodies on earth, and God then told the souls of their punishment. God decreed that suffering would await them in the physical world, but he promised them that, if their actions on Earth were worthy of their divine origin, their condition would improve and they would eventually return to the heavenly world. If it did not improve, he would condemn them to repeated reincarnation upon Earth.”

"In the General Discourses did you not hear that all the souls whirled about in all the cosmos - portioned out, as it were - come from the one soul of the all? Many are the changes of these souls, then, some toward a happier lot, others the opposite. The snake-like change into water creatures; the watery change into things of dry land; the dry-land souls change into winged things; the aerial into humans; and human beings, changing into demons, possess the beginning of immortality, and so then they enter the troop of gods, which is really two troops, one wandering, the other fixed. [8] And this is soul most perfect glory. But if a soul that has entered into humans remains vicious, it neither tastes immortality nor shares in the good but turns back and rushes down the road toward the snakes, and this is the sentence pronounced against a vicious soul."

"Dharma is the basis and origin of all Natural Law, of the most instinctive and healthy way of living, and serves as the very ordering foundation of nature herself. At one time in the not-to-distant past, most of humanity understood and attempted to live in accordance with Dharma. Consequently, people prospered, were healthier, happier, more satisfied, and lived in greater spiritual and material abundance than we do today. Dharma sustained meaningful civilization, and prompted people to pursue peace, discernment, nobility, excellence, wisdom, goodness, and truth in all that they did and in all that they aspire for. Up until 2000 years ago, the concept of Dharma, or Natural Law, was held universally to be the highest achievable standard of both civilized human behavior and of a healthy and balanced ordering of societal dynamics."
Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya
The Dharma Manifesto
Introduction
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What Is Brahmacharya?

1. It is only within recent years, practically the last forty, that the scientific attention has been brought to bear upon the subject of the nature and evolution of the sexual impulse in man. Psychologists and clinical students have made careful investigations into the phenomena of normal` and abnormal sexual life among the civilized populations of the present day.

2. The close connection of the subject of sex with religion, both in social evolution and individual psychology, renders the study of chastity an extremely important chapter in the past and future sociology of the race.

3. The gratification of every worldly desire is sinful. Man was created for a life of spiritual communion with God. Moral goodness consists in renouncing all sensuous pleasures, in separating from the world, in living solely after the spirit, in imitating the perfection and purity of God. Sensuality is inconsistent with wisdom and holiness. The great business of life is to avoid impurity.
4. Man has degraded himself to a great degree by becoming a puppet of passion. He has become an imitative machine. He has lost his power of discrimination. He has sunk into the most abject form of slavery. What a sad state! What a lamentable plight indeed! If he wishes to regain his lost divine state and Brahmic glory, his whole being must be completely transmuted by entertaining sublime divine thoughts and practice of regular meditation. Transmutation of sex-desire is a very potent, efficacious and satisfactory way to realize eternal Bliss.
5. Brahmacharya is the vow of celibacy in thought, word and deed, by which one attains Self-realisation or reaches Brahman. It means control of not only the reproductive Indriya but also control of all senses in thought, word and deed. The door to Nirvana or perfection is complete Brahmacharya. Complete celibacy is the master-key to open the realms of elysian Bliss. The avenue to the abode of Supreme Peace begins from Brahmacharya or purity.
6. “Rasad raktam tato mamsam mamsanmedhah prajayate; Medasosthi tato majja majjayah sukrasambhavah—from food comes juice or chyle, from chyle blood, from blood flesh, from flesh fat, from fat bones, from bones marrow and lastly from marrow semen.” Semen is the quintessence of food or blood. One drop of semen is manufactured out of 40 drops of blood according to the medical science. According to Ayurveda it is elaborated out of 80 drops of blood. Just as sugar is all-pervading in the sugar-cane, butter in milk, so also semen is pervading the whole body. Just as the butter-milk is thin after butter is removed, so also semen is thinned by its wastage. The more the wastage of semen the more is the weakness. In Yoga Sastras it is said: “Maranam bindupatanat jivanam bindu-rakshanat—falling of semen brings death; preservation of semen gives life.” Semen is the real vitality in man. It is the hidden treasure for man. It imparts Brahma-Tejas to the face and strength to the intellect.
7. If the spermatic secretion in men is continuous, it must either be expelled or reabsorbed. As a result of the most patient and persevering scientific investigations, whenever the seminal secretions are conserved and thereby reabsorbed into the system, it goes towards enriching the blood and strengthening the brain. Dr. Dio Louis taught that the conservation of this element is essential to the strength of body, vigour of mind and keenness of intellect. Another writer Dr. E.P. Miller writes: “All waste of spermatic secretions, whether voluntary or involuntary, is a direct waste of life-force. It is almost universally conceded that the choicest element of the blood enters into the composition of the spermatic secretion. If these conclusions are correct then it follows that a chaste life is essential to man’s well-being.”