CELIBACY

There is no need to say much about celibacy, since it has been dealt with in an earlier chapter. It is normal in India that all those who do not renounce the world to become sadhus marry. Bhagavan always insisted that brahmacharya is living constantly in Brahman. He did not encourage formal adoption of the saffron garb (external sannyasa ^[?]). He neither enjoined nor discouraged celibacy, though occasionally he did evince interest in births and marriages among the devotees.