I heard that if you pass stool more than once a day you become a bhogi? You are called a bhogi?

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"I heard that if you pass stool more than once a day you become a bhogi" |"You are called a bhogi"

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes. Don't artificially do that. (laughter)... First of all become yogi. Then do it. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya... Don't try for passing stool once. (laughter) That does not make you a yogi... Antara... Yes. That makes you yogi, not by passing stool. (laughter) Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Morning Walk -- December 7, 1975, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: ...necessary vairāgya, there is no need. We don't approve that. Yuktāhāra-vihāras ca. What you require for keeping health but not to eat too much. But what is absolutely required must be done.

Aksayānanda: I heard that if you pass stool more than once a day you become a bhogī? You are called a bhogī?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Aksayānanda: Does that mean a serious devotee should only pass stool once a day?

Prabhupāda: Don't artificially do that. (laughter) First of all become yogi. Then do it.

Aksayānanda: Yes. Of course, it can only be done by Kṛṣṇa's mercy, but one should at least try for that.

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Don't try for passing stool once. (laughter) That does not make you a yogi.

Bhavananda: Yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntarātmanā (BG 6.47).

Prabhupāda: Antara... Yes. That makes you yogi, not by passing stool. (laughter) Hare Kṛṣṇa. (break)