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<div class="heading">That is tapasya: not eating. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, he was a very rich man's son. So he showed us the example, what is tapasya. He gradually reduced his eating, every alternate days a little butter. That's all. Raguṇatha dāsa Gosvāmī. And still, he was taking three times bath and hundred times... Sāṅkhyā-pūrvaka-nāma-gāna-natibhiḥ. He was offering obeisances flat hundred times and taking bath three times. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, those who have gone to Rādhā-Kunda, you have seen, the extreme tapasya. He was very rich man's son. In those days his father's income was twelve lakhs of rupees. He left his happy home and joined Caitanya Mahāprabhu and exemplified tapasya. He showed.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.12 -- Los Angeles, June 25, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.12 -- Los Angeles, June 25, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So he is recommending, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, that this regulative life should be conducted: first of all ''tapasya''. ''Tapasya'' means. . . ''Tapa. Tapa'' means voluntary suffering. That is called ''tapasya''. The voluntary suffering means what is our enjoyment? First of all let us see. The enjoyment is if we can eat voraciously, eating, and if we can sleep thirty hours, and if we have got sex life without any discrimination, and don't care for defense. That's all. This is enjoyment life, material enjoyment means. Now, ''tapasya'' means denying all these things. Denying. Eating as much as I require to maintain my body—this is ''tapasya'', not that voraciously eating. ''Tapasya'' means practically not eating. That is ''tapasya'': not eating. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, he was a very rich man's son. So he showed us the example, what is ''tapasya''. He gradually reduced his eating, every alternate days a little butter. That's all. Raguṇatha dāsa Gosvāmī. And still, he was taking three times bath and hundred times. . . ''Sāṅkhyā-pūrvaka-nāma-gāna-natibhiḥ''. He was offering obeisances flat hundred times and taking bath three times. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, those who have gone to Rādhā-Kunda, you have seen, the extreme ''tapasya''. He was very rich man's son. In those days his father's income was twelve ''lakhs ''of rupees. He left his happy home and joined Caitanya Mahāprabhu and exemplified ''tapasya'', he showed.

So ''tapasya'' generally means that first thing is that we should reduce our eating, sleeping, mating and defense. This is called ''tapasya''; voluntarily accept. Suppose I am accustomed to eat very voraciously, and if I have to execute ''tapasya'', that means I will have to reduce my eating to the point of no eating. But that is not possible. But that will create some trouble, but I will accept this trouble. This is called ''tapasya''. I am habituated to sleep so many hours; I will have to reduce it. ''Yuktāhāra vihāraś ca''. We don't say, "Don't sleep," but we say, "Reduce sleep as much as possible. Reduce your eating as much as possible." So this is called ''tapasya''. And ''brahmacaryeṇa. Brahmacaryeṇa'' means completely cessation of sex life. So that is not possible to completely give up eating or completely sex life, but make it regulated. That is ''tapasya'': eating, sleeping, mating and defense as much as it is required. The aim should be to make it nil. That is called ''tapasya. Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa'' ([[vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.13]]). ''Brahmācārya'' means, strictly. . . ''Brahmācārya'' means that one should not look upon woman, "Oh, here is a very beautiful girl." That is also sex, subtle sex. And to talk, "fsh-fsh-fsh-fsh," that is also subtle sex. So these things are to be avoided. There are eight kinds of subtle sex life. This is called ''brahmācārya''. So according to Vedic ''śāstra'', if one lives with one woman, one man, they are also ''brahmacārī''. Not many. This is. . . If one cannot give up sex life, let him be satisfied with one man and one woman. That is also ''tapasya''; that is also ''brahmacārī''. But not that jumping from here, there, there, there, there, no, like monkey. No. (laughter) This is training. This is training.
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