Ajāmila nāmnā. His name was Ajāmila. (aside:) Why the sound is in . . .? It is not possible to chant? "Cut, cut cut, cut." Naṣṭa-sadācāraḥ. Sadācāra means good behavior. Why good behavior was lost? Dāsyaḥ saṁsarga-dūṣitaḥ: because he was associating with a prostitute, illegal sex.
Therefore, anyone who wants to make progress in spiritual life, he must be sadācāra. His behavior must be very regulated. Asadācārī, unclean, non regulated, cannot make any progress. If somebody says that, "Whatever you like, you can do. There is no difference. You can imagine your own way . . ." This is going on nowadays. "Whatever you like, you can do. You can imagine your own way of self-realization."
But that is not recommended in the Vedic literatures. One must be sadācāra. This is the beginning of sadācāra: to rise early in the morning, to cleanse, then chant, or chant the Vedic mantras or, simplified as in the present age, Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, mahā-mantra. This is the beginning of sadācāra.
So sadācāra means to become freed from sinful reaction. Unless one follows the regulative principles he cannot be freed. And unless one is fully freed from sinful reaction, he cannot understand what is God. Those who are not in sadācāra, regulative principles, for them . . . just like animals, they are not expected to follow any . . . of course, by nature they follow regulative principles. Still, but human beings, having advanced consciousness, so instead of using it properly, they misuse the advanced consciousness, and thus they become lower than animals.
The animals, for want of advanced consciousness, cannot follow any regulative principles. But by nature they have got some regulative principle. A human being, advanced consciousness, instead of using it for advance in spiritual life, they use it for sense gratification, and thus they become lower than the animals.
So as soon as one becomes irregulated, without any sadācāra, then he doesn't care for any sinful activities for maintaining his body and soul together. He doesn't mind. Their philosophy is . . . what is called? "Existence is the first law of nature," or something like . . .
Guest (1): Self-preservation.
Prabhupāda: Self-preservation. So self-preservation . . . they do not know what is self-preservation. That is another ignorance. They consider this body as the self. Their self-preservation means to keep this body. And that is also not possible. If you do not follow regulative principles, it is not possible to keep your body in good condition. That is also not possible.