Genuine education and spiritual advancement require conquering bodily demands through disciplined practice and maintaining sadacara, gentlemen's behavior.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.22 — July 6, 1975, Chicago 750706SB-CHICAGO [39:37 Minutes] SB-06.01.22_750706SB-CHICAGO Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] bandy-akṣaiḥ kaitavaiś cauryair garhitāṁ vṛttim āsthitaḥ bibhrat kuṭumbam aśucir yātayām āsa dehinaḥ [SB 6.1.22] [break] [01:40] "That fallen brāhmaṇa of the name Ajāmila was giving trouble to all other men by forcibly arresting them, cheating them by gambling with weighted dice, or by directly plundering someone.
Thus he used to earn his livelihood to maintain his family by giving trouble and pain to others." Prabhupāda: bandy-akṣaiḥ kaitavaiś cauryair garhitāṁ vṛttim āsthitaḥ bibhrat kuṭumbam aśucir yātayām āsa dehinaḥ [SB 6.1.22] Bibhrat. Bibhrat kuṭumbam aśucir yātayām āsa dehinaḥ. Bibhrat, we have to maintain our body. This is called bibhrat.
That is necessary. We have got this body in this material world. This is not spiritual world. In the spiritual world there is no necessity of maintaining the body.
The body is spiritual. As we have got here in this material world, to maintain this body I require to eat, I require to sleep, I require to satisfy my sense and I require to defend—the four necessities. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca. And spiritual body means these four kinds of bodily demands nil, no more. That is spiritual life.
That means no eating, no sleeping, no sex and no defense. That Gosvāmīs, six Gosvāmīs in Vṛndāvana, they practiced it. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau **(1). They conquered over sleeping, eating, mating and defending.
Nidrā means sleeping, āhāra means eating, vihāra means sex. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau. Conquered. So this is the advancement of spiritual life. When we conquer over these things, that means we have come to the spiritual platform.
So, so long we have got this material body, it is not possible, but try to minimize. Try to minimize. Therefore Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī... He was very rich man's son.