God is one, transcendental person who eternally maintains all plural living entities through perfect knowledge and complete opulence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.13-14 — June 26, 1975, Los Angeles 750626SB-LOS ANGELES [38:23 Minutes] SB-06.01.13-14_750626SB-LOS ANGELES Santoṣa: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena ca damena ca tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ yamena niyamena vā deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ [SB 6.1.13-14] [break] [01:45] Translation: "To concentrate the mind, one must observe a life of celibacy and never fall down.
Such a life of celibacy, or brahmacarya, is perfect. One should voluntarily give up sense enjoyment. One should control the mind and senses, give charity, speak truthfully, be clean and nonviolent. He should follow regulative principles and chant the holy name of the Lord.
These practices certainly bring temporary purification. Thus they are like fire, for although fire clears away the dry creepers beneath the bamboo plant, the creepers grow back again at the first opportunity." Prabhupāda: tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena ca damena ca tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ yamena niyamena vā deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ [SB 6.1.13-14] So this is first-class human life. This should be the ideal of first-class human life. The first thing is tapasya, austerity, not extravagance.
That is not human life. Tapasya. Tapasā means, generally, voluntarily accepting some inconvenience. And then brahmacarya.
Brahmacarya means no sex life. According to Vedic civilization, the students, they are called brahmacārī. In student life there is no sex life. Then his brain will be finished.
That is happening nowadays. From the student life they indulge in sex life. Therefore not very big men are coming now, because their brain substance is finished. So a brahmacārī is supposed to raise the semina to the brain, ūrdhvam-anti,[?] not discharge, but keep it on the brain.
Then their memory becomes very sharp. Once heard from anyone, he will exactly produce, without any forget. Where is that science now? There is no such thing. So to fulfill the human life, aim of human life, we have to become first-class human being.