So all the division—brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa—they are known as āśrama. Anyone can understand āśrama. As soon as there is āśrama, that means "Here some men, saintly person, spiritually advanced person, lives." That is āśrama. So that āśrama, when a student follows the regulative principles, he is supposed to be situated in brahmacārī āśrama. A householder living with family—husband, wife, children—if they are following strictly the regulative principles: gṛhastha āśrama. Similarly, retired life, if he is following the regulative principles: the vānaprastha āśrama.
Similarly, a renounced life, sannyāsa, if he is following the regulative principles, that is sannyāsa āśrama. Not that imitating somebody, I put on a saffron dress and I become a sannyāsī and by begging I live. This has killed the whole Hindu society or the sanātana-dharma society. Unqualified persons, they do not know the regulative principles, but for solution of economic problem they dress them. This is Kali-yuga. They will pass on simply by the dress, without any knowledge.
So here also, although Ajāmila was born of a Brahmin father and he was strictly following the regulative principles of a Brahmin—that will be stated—but he fell. He fell in love with a prostitute, and therefore his characters were lost. Naṣṭa-sadācāraḥ. The reason is, why? Dāsyāḥ saṁsarga-dūṣitaḥ. Because he associated with a prostitute, therefore his all regulative principles became lost. And as soon as you are lost of regulative principles, then you take to all kinds of sinful activities. The regulative principles will keep you on the standard of life. If you give it up, then immediately you fall down, māyā.