Brahmacharya

Brahmacharya is a way of life that leads one to ‘Brahma’, i.e., God.  That way of life entails a complete control over senses and is to be secured in thought, word and deed. In other words, brahmacharya is to be observed is three ways-in mind, in speech and in body. Gandhiji elucidates: “But brahmacharya, in speech is bodily brahmacharya, for, though it is the mind that inspires speech, in itself speech is a bodily function. There remains the mind then. Thus what is needed most is to keep the mind under control, which is an uphill task.”
For Gandhiji, brahmacharya does not necessarily have a reference to one’s being married or not.