TEXT 36
yah pravrajya grhat purvam
tri-vargavapanat punah
yadi seveta tan bhiksuh
sa vai vantasy apatrapah
SYNONYMS
yahone who; pravrajyabeing finished for good and leaving for the forest (being situated in transcendental bliss); grhatfrom home; purvamat first; tri-vargathe three principles of religion, economic development and sense gratification; avapanatfrom the field in which they are sown; punahagain; yadiif; sevetashould accept; tanmaterialistic activities; bhiksuha person who has accepted the sannyasa order; sahthat person; vaiindeed; vanta-asione who eats his own vomit; apatrapahwithout shame.
TRANSLATION
One who accepts the sannyasa order gives up the three principles of materialistic activities in which one indulges in the field of household lifenamely religion, economic development and sense gratification. One who first accepts sannyasa but then returns to such materialistic activities is to be called a vantasi, or one who eats his own vomit. He is indeed a shameless person.
PURPORT
Materialistic activities are regulated by the institution of varnasrama-dharma. Without varnasrama-dharma, materialistic activities constitute animal life. Yet even in human life, while observing the principles of varna and asramabrahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasaone must ultimately accept sannyasa, the renounced order, for only by the renounced order can one be situated in brahma-sukha, or transcendental bliss. In brahma-sukha one is no longer attracted by lusty desires. Indeed, when one is no longer disturbed, especially by lusty desires for sexual indulgence, he is fit to become a sannyasi. Otherwise, one should not accept the sannyasa order. If one accepts sannyasa at an immature stage, there is every possibility of his being attracted by women and lusty desires and thus again becoming a so-called grhastha or a victim of women. Such a person is most shameless, and he is called vantasi, or one who eats that which he has already vomited. He certainly leads a condemned life. In our Krsna consciousness movement it is advised, therefore, that the sannyasis and brahmacaris keep strictly aloof from the association of women so that there will be no chance of their falling down again as victims of lusty desires.

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