celibacy is required for perfection of self-realization

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"The husband and wife, Kardama and Devah™ti, were advanced in yoga practice;

the husband was a maha-yogi, great mystic, and the wife was a yoga-lakshana,

or one advanced in yoga. They united and produced children. Formerly, after

making their lives perfect, great sages and saintly persons used to beget

children, otherwise they strictly observed the rules and regulations of

celibacy. Brahmacarya (following the rules and regulations of celibacy) is

required for perfection of self-realization and mystic power. There is no

recommendation in the Vedic scriptures that one can go on enjoying material

sense gratification at one’s whims, as one likes, and at the same time

become a great meditator by paying a rascal some money" (SB 3.21.4,

purport).