Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like student. Then he becomes a family man when he's grown up. Then he becomes again a sannyāsī. So it is a process. It is not jumping. One after another.
Guest (4): Yes, but would you allow one of the devotees to, if he wants to, observe celibacy and then...
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is brahmacārī.
Guest (4): And after that...
Prabhupāda: After that, he should continue the life of celibacy. But if he is unable, then he's allowed to marry.
Guest (4): Because (Sanskrit). You cannot suppress your karma.
Prabhupāda: There is no question of supressing. Regulating.
Guest (5): Do the same rules apply to women as to men?
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, that in the society women, working class, and the mercantile class, they are, according to Vedic scripture, they are less intelligent, women, working class and mercantile men. Just like mercant..., they are after money, that's all. And śūdra, they want, after job. And women means they are after fulfilling their material desires. They have no other idea, that there is Brahmān, one should know Brahmān... They do not care to know. Therefore they are called śūdras, stri, śūdra, vaiśya. Yes. Vaiśya.