Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.1 in Hindi [translated]

Prabhupāda:

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya
jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur-unmīlitaṁ yena
tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
[Gautamīya-tantra 7.11]

śrī-caitanya-mano ’bhīṣṭaṁ
sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale
svayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ
dadāti sva-padāntikam
[Śrī Rūpa praṇāma]

he kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho
dīna-bandho jagat-pate
gopeśa gopīkā-kānta
rādhā-kānta namo ’stu te

tapta-kāñcana-gaurāṅgi
rādhe vṛndāvaneśvari
vṛṣabhānu-sute devi
praṇamāmi hari-priye
[Śrī Rādhā praṇāma]

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya
prabhu-nityānanda
śrī-advaita gadādhara
śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda
[Śrī Pañcatattva mantra]

hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare

ṛṣabha uvāca
nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke
kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye
tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ
śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam
[SB 5.5.1]

Yesterday we talked with Sadajivatlalji about Lord Ṛṣabhadeva’s instructions to His sons before He retired. Previously all the big, big kings used to retire from royal lifestyle. This is Vedic civilisation. Not that until one is shot dead he will not retire. That’s not good. There is certain time set for retirement.

Brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. This Hindu dharma which is going on at present, this word ‘Hindu’ is not found in the Vedic texts. In our śāstra it is called varṇāśrama-dharma. Four varṇas: social orders and four āśramas: spiritual orders—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, and brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. By following the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma the human form of life becomes successful. This is Vedic conclusion.

varṇāśramācāra-vatā
puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān
viṣṇur ārādhyate panthā
nānyat tat-toṣa-kāraṇam
[Cc Madhya 8.58 / Viṣṇu Purāṇa 3.8.9]

The human civilisation begins from varṇāśrama-dharma. Until people follow the system of varṇāśrama-dharma, it is animal society. It cannot be accepted as human society. *varṇāśramācāra-vatā puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān. * About varṇāśrama-dharma the Supreme Lord has explained in the Bhagavad-gītā

cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ
guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ
[Bg 4.13]

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created the four social orders namely brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, according to qualities and work and not by birth. How can you uproot that? If you destroy it then there will be no human society left. It will turn into animal society. So Mahārāja Ṛṣabhadeva Who is accepted by the followers of varṇāśrama-dharma, and yesterday I heard that the followers of Jainism also accept Him. The hardcore Jains. Anyway, whether Jains or Hindus, His instructions are beneficial to all. Whether, Jains, Hindus, Musselmans, Christians, the instructions of the Supreme Lord are meant for everyone. Just like the Supreme Lord instructs in the Bhagavad-gītā, annād bhavanti bhūtāni, [Bg 3.14] that by producing foodgrains everyone, whether human or animal, will become happy. So this production of foodgrains to make everyone happy is meant fot the Hindus, Musselmans, Jains, and everybody else. The orders of the Supreme Lord…The Supreme Personality of Godhead are one, and His instructions are meant for all. It is not that those are meant for Hindus or Musselmans only. No. There is no separate Gods for Musselmans or Hindus. God is one. Ekaṁ brahma dvitīyaṁ nāsti. [Vedic injunction] Just like gold, if a Hindu possesses gold does it mean it becomes Hindu gold, and if it is with a Mussalman it becomes Mussalman gold? Gold is gold whether is remains with Hindu or Mussalman or Jain. Similarly, dharma means, dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītaṁ [SB 6.3.19]

Religion cannot be sectarian. Because the codes of dharma is explained in the Bhagavata that dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītaṁ. Just like the orders of the King. It is for Hindus, Musselmans, Christians and everyone. In the same way, the principles of *dharma—*the laws enacted by the Supreme Lord are meant for one and all. It is not sectarian or suitable for a particular society or country or candidate. No. It’s for everyone. Therefore, dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītaṁ. Here also Ṛṣabhadeva Who is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is imparting instructions to His sons. My dear sons,

ayaṁ deha na ayaṁ deha deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke
kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye
[SB 5.5.1]

My dear sons, This body, ayaṁ deha, this body, this human body. Everyone has got a body. The dog has a body, the hog has a body, the ass has a body and the human being has got a body. But especially He is stressing that this body, ayaṁ deha, this present body, which body? Deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke. Nṛloke the body that you have in the human society, that body. Kaṣṭān Kāmān na arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye. To fulfil the demands of the body, the body has four demands-āhāra, nidrā, bhaya, maithuna: eating, sleeping, mating and defending.

You need to eat something, require a place to sleep, apartment,* āhāra, nidrā, bhaya*, an arrangement for defending yourself, defense, and maithuna, sense gratification. Especially sex life. These four things are required for all. The dog needs it and the human being needs it.

āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca
sāmānyam etat paśubhiḥ narāṇām
[Hitopadeśa 25]

Eating, sleeping, mating, and defending—these four things are required for everyone whether one is a dog or a man. But there must be some distinction. Whether a dog’s body or a man’s body, this is explained here, ayaṁ deha deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke, this body that you have received in the human society, it is not for *kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye. * This human body should not be utilised for just fulfilling the demands of the body as the dogs and hogs do by working hard whole day. The human body should not be used for that.

Therefore the natural tendency for the human beings is to earn some money, save it and then enjoy it peacefully. However, this is not possible for a dog’s body, an ass’s body or a hog’s body. For them, so long they will live they must work hard whole day just to maintain their bodies. Therefore it is forbidden here that ayaṁ deha, this particular body, the human body. Just to maintain this body by working hard, that is for the dogs and hogs and not for the human beings. This is the instruction. It is not good for the human beings just to fulfil the demands of the body by working so hard. Then what should they do? The Lord says here tapo divyaṁ.

The human body is meant for undergoing austerity. Only for working hard day and night, day shift, night shift, up to the ultimate end of life just go on labouring hard is not good. In the human life at least some portion of it must be saved for performing austerity. That is why the system of varṇāśrama is established in the human society. Brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. At least before leaving the body one take vānaprastha and sannyāsa and undergo austerity.* Tapo divyaṁ putrakā. *What is the need for austerity? Why undergo austerity? That is tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyeta. This existence, everyone wants, actually everyone is eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. [Bg 2.20] When the body is finished the living entity is not finished.

dehino ’smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
[Bg 2.13]

When this body is finished the living entity receives another body. For example, asmin dehe yathā kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā, just like in this body a person becomes a child, then he grows to boyhood to youthhood to old age and then he dies. So that death is tathā dehāntara-prāptir, he gets another body. As from a child body to boy body, from boy body to young body, from young body to old body, similarly after this present body one will receive another body.

tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati
[Bg 2.13]

That is why we have to undergo austerity to determine what type of body we are going to get. Otherwise, that same cycle

janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-
duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam
[Bg 13.9]

You have to give up one body and accept another body. And you have to suffer the resultant actions of that body, then again give up that body and accept another body. This cycle will go on. This lesson must be taught first that I will have to give up this body, tathā dehāntara prāptir, so let me prepare myself in such a way as to what kind of body I want to get. If we do not endeavour for that then the human form of body that we have received will be wasted uselessly. This kind of civilisation is not desirable. This is the instruction Lord Ṛṣabhadeva is giving to His sons.

Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyed. Purify your existentional identity. Purify. Purify. Why purify? Why you have to purify? Because sattvaṁ śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam. We all want happiness. What is the aim of our struggle for existence in this body? Happiness. But we will have to give up our bodies. So where is the happiness? Actually under the spell of māyā we accept this as happiness. But the śāstra says that this is not happiness. Happiness you will have when you can conquer these four things—birth, death, old age, and disease. First of all you conquer these then you can have happiness. So Ṛṣabhadeva’s advice is that we will have to give up our bodies, so before quitting this body we should purify our existence. Śuddhyed sattvaṁ brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam. Then only we will have ananda. Sat-cit-ānanda vigrahaḥ. Mamaivāṁśo jīva bhūtaḥ. [Bg 15.7] The Supreme Personality of Godhead is declaring in the Bhagavad-gītā that the spirit soul is My part and parcel. And what is form of the Supreme Lord?

īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
[Bs 5.1]

The Supreme Lord has got a body, sat-cit-ānanda vigrahaḥ, not like this as we have. As our bodies are perishable the Supreme Lord’s body is not like that. We think that Kṛṣṇa is an ordinary person like us. avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā
mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam [Bg 9.11]

Those who are foolish, mūḍhās, they think that since Kṛṣṇa comes in a human form he is like us. They deride Him. But The Supreme Lord’s body is sat-cit-ānanda vigrahaḥ. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto, they don’t even know what kind of the Supreme Lord possesses. The Supreme Personality of Godhead’s form is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. He Himself declares mamaivāṁśo jīva bhūtaḥ, all these living entities are My parts and parcels. Therefore they are also eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. The word sat means eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. [Bg 2.20] When the body is finished the soul is not finished. This is called sat. Oṁ tat sat. [Bg 17.23] And cit. Cit means knowledge. Full of knowledge. Eternal, full of knowledge, and ānandamaya: blissful. This is our svarupa: constitutional position. Svarūpa means svarūpena vyavasthitiḥ.

muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ
sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ
[SB 2.10.6]

Mukti means… This our present perverted form which is not sat-cit-ānanda vigrahaḥ, which is perishable, temporary, and full of ignorance and distress, when we give up this kind of form and receive a sat-cit-ānanda form, that is called mukti: liberation. Muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ. Now our form is perverted. Therefore we have to execute austerity. That is human life. Tapo divyam putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyed. We need to purify our existence. The Supreme Lord says janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam. What is your actual misery? The actual miseries are we have to take birth again and again, die again and again, and on account of accepting a material body we have to grow old, and suffer from diseases. Threefold material miseries: ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika and ādhidaivika: miseries caused by one’s body and mind, miseries caused by other living entities and miseries caused by natural calamities. Because we have forshaken the principle of varṇāśrama-dharma, we don’t understand our real problems of life. We are simply busy in mitigating our immediate distresses. That an animal also does. Immediate relief. If it is hungry it will look for food. A hog will search for stool and a man will look for a restaurant or hotel. The business is the same. Work very hard just for eating? The śāstra says that your food is already supplied. So there is no need to work hard for that.

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido
na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ
[SB 1.5.18]

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has already arranged your food somewhere or other. We, in the human society, work hard to earn our livelihood, but out of 800,400,000 species of life 800,000,000 are of animals, birds, insects etc and the Supreme Lord provides foods to all of them He supplies to an elephant and to an ant as well. Then why won’t He provide us? For food or for that matter these four requirements are available everywhere. Viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt [SB 11.9.29] Viṣaya. Viṣaya means eating, sleeping, defending and mating. Wherever you take birth these things are already arranged for you. You need not work very hard for that.

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido
na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ

But rather you should endeavour to re-establish your lost relationship with the Supreme Lord. How I can re-establish my relation with God. And if once our relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is established then tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya. [Bg 4.9]

These are the considerations. So our this Kṛṣṇa Consciousness movement, we are trying to preach this truth. We are not saying that give up your work, household and everything. No. That is not a fact. Do not forget your real purpose of life. This is the purpose of life. Because we have lost our connection with the Supreme Lord, hence we are suffering.

kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kare
pāśate māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare
[Prema-vivarta When an individual soul forgets his eternal relationship with God and tries to lord it over the material nature or resources, that condition, that forgetful condition, is called māyā, or illusion.]

A vaiṣṇava poet in Bengal has said that when we forget Kṛṣṇa or God and simply hanker after material enjoyment that state is called māyā. Māyā is nothing else. Māyā means what is actually not. To forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead is itself māyā. Therefore the Supreme Lord instructs mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te [Bg 7.14]

It is not at all difficult to get respite from māyā. The moment you surrender to the Supreme Lord māyā will go away. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja. [Bg 18.66] That is why the Supreme Lord personally comes here from His Vaikuṇṭha, Goloka Vṛndāvana. Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [Bg 4.7] What is that dharmasya glāni? To not accept God. Atheism. What is God? I am God. This atheism is dharmasya glāni. Therefore the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself descends. Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati. What is dharma? Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītaṁ. [SB 6.3.19]

Whatever the Supreme Lord orders that is dharma. The Supreme Lord says sarva-dharmān parityajya māṁ ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja, that is dharma. This is dharma—“Abandon all vareieties of religion and surrender unto Me,” this is dharma. These Hindu dharma, Mussalman dharma we have created. These are man-made. Made by man. But the Supreme Lord says sarva-dharmān parityajya māṁ ekaṁ śaraṇam…The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not appear to preach Hindu, Musselmam or Christian dharmas. He comes to preach the real dharma which is to surrender unto His lotus feet. And the devotees of the Supreme Lord simply preach that. What kind of dharma do the devotees of the Lord preach? He does not manufacture an artificial, new pattern dharma and preach it. He simply repeats the words of the Supreme Lord. Therefore the Supreme Lord says

evaṁ paramparā-prāptam
imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ
[Bg 4.2]

There must be disciplic succession connection. Whatever the Supreme Lord has instructed Brahmājī, he, in turn instructed the same thing to Nārada. Nārada preached that same messege and from Nārada Vyāsadeva learned. And Vyāsadeva also preached the same thing, satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi. Janmādy asya yato ’nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ [SB 1.1.1] We belong to Vyāsadeva sampradāya. From Vyāsadeva to Madhvācārya to Caitanya Mahāprabhu. And the same instructions are conveyed. The same messege. Nothing newly manufactured. We don’t manufacture. This is the special significance of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness movement that we don’t manufacture. The Supreme Lord instructs

man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
[Bg 9.34]

We also repeat the same thing. Nothing else. We request everyone, ‘sir, always think of the Supreme Lord.’ Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa….hare hare. This makes you think of the Lord.

śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ
smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam
arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ
sakhyam ātma-nivedanam
[SB 7.5.23]

This is devotional service to the Supreme Lord. We don’t say something else like ‘there is no God, I am God, you are God,’ as if there is a fountain of Gods. We don’t speak lies like that. We speak the truth. What is that? Lord Kṛṣṇa says *man-manā bhava mad-bhakto. *The Lord Himself says that always think of Me. And what do we say? Always think of the Lord. The point is same. No adulteration. That is called Paramparā. ‘Think of Me’ does not mean think of you or us. My head means my head. Not that ‘my head’ is ‘I head,’ not like that. That is Kṛṣṇa Consciousness movement. Whatever the Supreme Lord instructs we repeat. The Supreme Lord instructs in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam and also in the Bhagavad-gītā. in the Bhagavad-gītā the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself instructs and in the *Śrīmad Bhāgavatam *Vyāsadeva describes about Him. The messege is one. No difference. This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission that yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa [Cc Madhya 7.128]

That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission and nothing else. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa, in whichever country you live, you all live in Bombay, these people some live in New York, some live in London, some live elsewhere, but what is the goal of our preaching? Āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra ei deśa, by My order you all become gurus. But how can I become a guru? I am not a learned man and I have got business to do, so how can I become a guru? There is no difficulty. What is that? Yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa-upadeśa’. You must be meeting people every day. Just tell him what the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇas has instructed. Then you become a guru. According to Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s calculation there is no difficulty in becoming guru. If a person does not manufacture anything, does not show his over expertise then there is no difficulty in becoming guru. All you have got to do is repeat what the Supreme Lord has ordered. Yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa. This is our mission. And our request to you all is that there will be no profit in talking all kinds of nonsense, nor has it ever happened, nor will it happen in future. Simply repeat what Kṛṣṇa has adviced. You learn yourself, preach the same to others and teach them how to do. Your lives will become glorious. That is why the Supreme Lord said tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ [SB 5.5.1] If you want to purify your existence…What is the meaning of purifying the existence? To get freedom from the cycle of birth and death. This is called purification of existence. No more birth and death. The Supreme Lord Himself declares

janma karma ca me divyam
evaṁ yo jānati tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti kaunteya
[Bg 4.9]

It is very easy. Is it difficult to understand the Lord’s appearance and activities? The Lord Himself says,

ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo
mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate
iti matvā bhajante māṁ
budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ
[Bg 10.8]

This knowledge that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is everything, vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ, that mahātmā is very rare. And when does one attain such knowledge? After speculating for many, many lifetimes when one actually comes to his senses that vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti, Lord Vāsudeva is everything and it is a fact! The Supreme Lord Himself says

mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat
kiñcid asti dhanañjaya
[Bg 7.7]

In the Vedānta-sutra, janmādy asya yataḥ. [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.2] And that same fact is elaborated in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam as janmādy asya yato ’nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā. [SB 1.1.1] These things are described in the śāstras. This Kṛṣṇa-upadeśa…Bhagavad-gītā is also Kṛṣṇa-upadeśa because Kṛṣṇa is personally speaking and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is also Kṛṣṇa-upadeśa because Vyāsadeva is personally describing about Kṛṣṇa. Paraṁ satyaṁ dhīmahi. [SB 1.1.1] According to our previous history if we again want to bring back our culture, culture is already there but we do not know. Even if we know it we don’t spread it.

na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ
durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ
[SB 7.5.31]

We try to adjust things with external objects, try to organise things but that will not yield any result.

andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās
te ’pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ
[SB 7.5.31]

These blind persons, they think, we will guide other blind persons. That will be of no use, because,* īśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥa,* their hans and legs are tightly bound by the ropes of the Supreme Lord. You cannot work independently.

prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
kartāham iti manyate
[Bg 3.27]

By the laws of nature, by nature’s law our hands and legs are tied. No one can even take one step out of her grip. If nature orders you that you will die today, nobody’s father even or any best Doctor or scientist can save you even for a moment. Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham, the Supreme Lord says. [Bg 10.34] If somebody refuses to understand Me then must understand at the time of death when I will snatch awawy all his possession. These are the considerations.

Therefore Ṛṣabhadeva instructs, My dear sons, just to work hard whole day like dogs and hogs and as soon as one gets some strength indulge in sense gratification, this is not the duty of the human form of life. The aim of human life is that by tapasya, tapasya means to give up those things which we like. That is tapasya. Tapasyā means, just like we smoke bīḍī: tobacco, and when I ask you to give up smoking, it must be little difficult. But that difficulty one has to tolerate. That is called tapasya. We drink wine. By giving up drinking wine we will have some difficulty. But for the Supreme Lord’s sake if we give up drinking even though it is inconvinent, we have to tolerate it. This is called tapasya. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena. Divyaṁ.

Divyaṁ means divine. Undergo some austerity for the pleasure of the Lord. Therefore we instruct these Europeans, Americans wherever we preach that kindly give up four things. Do some tapasya. What are those? No illicit sex. Do not indulge in illicit sex. Except your married wife, you treat every other woman as your mother. This is not ordinary thing. This is Cāṇakya Paṇḍita’s consideration. Who is a Paṇḍita: learned? You must have heard the name of Cāṇakya. There is a locality in New Delhi named after him as Cāṇakyapuri. He was a big politician. He wrote many moral instructions called Nīti-vākya: moral codes. He defined who is to be called a paṇḍita. Is he a learned who has acquired B.A, M.A, PhD degrees from university? No. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says, no. That is not true. Then who is to be called? Mātṛvat para-dāreṣu, one who treats others’ wives as mother, he is paṇḍita.

mātṛvat para-dāreṣu
para-dravyeṣu loṣṭravat
ātmavat sarva-bhūteṣu
yaḥ paśyati sa paṇḍitaḥ

Cāṇakya was himself a paṇḍita and he gives the definition of a paṇḍita. Therefore illicit sex, woman is required according to our varṇāśrama-dharma, but legitimate wife. The Supreme Lord says dharmāviruddho kāmo ’smi [Bg 7.11]

“Sex life not opposed to religious principle is me.” Sex life only to beget children is religious and other that is illicit sex life. That has to be given up. That is tapasya. No illicit sex and striyaḥ sūnā, [SB 1.17.38] unnessarily eating meat. We are human beings and for us the Supreme Lord has supplied so many things. Grains, fruits, milk and milk products, we should eat these or eat meat? It is a grave sin. Therefore we prohibit this. If you feel some inconvinence to give it up you tolerate it. That is called tapasya. These four things I made them to stop. This illicit sex was their daily affair, daily affair. But for God’s sake they have given up. They have given up illicit sex, eating meat, fish or eggs, and not only have they given up drinking wine but also smoking bīḍī, cigarette and even taking tea. No illicit sex, and striyaḥ sūnā pāna. Pāna means even taking tea or chewing betel nuts are also intoxication. so this is tapasya. These things should be given up. No illicit sex, no meat eating, no intoxication and no gambling. This much tapasya only, and not more. You don’t have to go to the jungle or forest. [end]