- yeṣām anta-gataṁ papa
- janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām
- (BG 7.28)
"Persons who are completely freed from all contamination of sinful activities and simply engaged in pious activities, they only are admitted in devotional service."
So if you are actually serious about entering into the kingdom of God, Vaikuṇṭha, then we should be very much careful about these four principles of restriction: No illicit . . . you cannot have any sex life without being married. That is sinful activity. You cannot indulge in intoxication. You cannot eat anything which is beyond the jurisdiction of your food. For you, for a human being, the food is, I mean to say, given quota that you can eat grains, you can eat fruits, you can eat flowers, vegetables, you can eat milk. That is sāttvikā, foodstuff prepared from vegetables, fruits, grain, sugar and milk products, that's all. That is sāttvikā. That is allotted for the human being.
You cannot imitate the cats and dogs, "Because they are eating meat, I can eat. Meat also is my food." They put forward everything is food. So why don't you eat stool? That is also food, for the hogs. So we have to . . . we must have discrimination that "What sort of food we shall take?" Not that like hogs, anything will be accepted. That is humanity. In this way . . . actually if we enter . . . if we want to enter into spiritual life, then these four principles, or restrictions, must be observed.
(break) . . . have to undergo the austerities, tapaḥ, divyam. That authority is meant for transcendental realizing, divyam. Then, when we have purified our existence, then we are admitted in the kingdom of God. Without that, it is not possible.