As a gymnast, he has spent a lifetime learning self-control, restraint and respect; as a dancer, this has caused him to struggle to express emotions, particularly passion.
While traditionally this age is a prescription for study, discipline and strict celibacy, brahmacharya in a broader context, and well beyond youth, means self-control or self-restraint in our dealings with the many distractions of our daily lives, be they physical, emotional or mental.
This very long list of positive qualities that support dharma, and, in turn, a spiritual life and spiritual evolution, have been efficiently boiled down by Hindu seekers far wiser than I, to three foundational values: truth (satya), non-hurting (ahimsa), and self-control or self-restraint (brahmacharya).
As will emerge in connection with the virtues in the individual soul, the distinction between justice and moderation is far less problematic in the case of the individual than in that of the city as a whole, because in the individual soul internal self-control and external self-restraint are clearly different attitudes.
At all times, in your interactions with children, parents and members of the public, practice self-restraint, self-control, and assertiveness in declaring that all you do, after all, is in the best interests of the children in your care.
3) Create a culture that blames the other guy for everything and discourages any form of individual self-restraint or self-control.
For Christians, lent is a period of self-restraint, marked by fasting, repentance, prayer and self-control.
A vision of self-control and restraint.
"She said that what worried President Kennedy during that very dangerous time was that a war might be started – not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men, the ones moved by fear and pride".
The removal of industrial disciplines also does away with restraint, self-control, limits on what we may and may not have in this world.
Years later, when she reprised the role in London, the critic of Opera magazine praised her "restraint and self-control (that) made it the more affecting".
