Apocryphal Thomas

ACTS OF THOMAS : M. M. NINAN
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May they give you glory by holiness of action and purity of heart.
May they love you and fear you; may they love you and serve you.
Be your self their glory, their joy, their whole desire.
Be their comfort in sorrow, their wisdom in perplexity,
their protection in the midst of injustice,
their patience in adversity, their riches in poverty, their food in fasting,
their remedy in time of sickness.
They have chosen you above all things;
may they find all things in possessing you.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.
Amen.
Five Mahavratas of Jain ascetics include Brahmacharya.
Raymond W. Bernard, Ph.D. in his essay entitled Science discovers the physiological value of
continence (1957) states:
"It is clear that there is an important internal physiological relation between the secretions of the sex
glands and the central nervous system, that the loss of these secretions, voluntarily or involuntarily,
exercises a detrimental effect on the nutrition and vitality of the nerves and brain, while, on the other
hand, the conservation of these secretions has a vitalizing effect on the nervous system, a regenerating
effect on the endocrine glands, and a rejuvenating effect on the organism as a whole."
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