| "Human life is meant for tapasya, and tapasya means beginning tapasā brahmacaryeṇa (SB 6.1.13). This is tapasya. Tapasya begins with brahmacarya, celibacy. No sex life. That is tapasya. tapasā brahmacaryeṇa, śamena damena va, tyāgena sattva-śaucyābhyāṁ, yamena niyamena vā (SB 6.1.13). The whole yogic process means how to become free from sexual desire. Indriya saṁyama. Yogam indriya-saṁyamaḥ. The yoga practice . . . Formerly, everyone was practicing this yoga, aṣṭāṅga-yoga, dhyāna, dhāraṇā, asana, praṇāyāma, just to become very stout and strong in the matter of sense gratification. Sense gratification is not at all good without any restriction. That is tapasya—tapasā brahmacaryeṇa. And the first-class tapasya is to cease from sex life, either man or woman. Then tapasya begins."
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