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sciousness; hearing is the basic principle for understanding, and therefore the pure  brahmacārī  engages fully in  harer nāmānukīrtanam —chanting and hearing the glories of the Lord. He restrains himself from the vibrations of material sounds, and his hearing is engaged in the transcendental sound vibration of Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, the householders, who have some license for sense gratification, perform such acts with great restraint. Sex life, intoxication and meat eating are general tendencies of human society, but a regulated householder does not indulge in unrestricted sex life and other sense gratifications. Marriage on principles of religious life is therefore current in all civilized human society because that is the way for restricted sex life. This restricted, unattached sex life is also a kind of  yajña  because the restricted householder sacrifices his general tendency toward sense gratification for higher transcendental life.
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सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे । आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ जुढति ज्ञानदीपिते ॥२७॥
sarvāṇīndriya-karmāṇi prāṇa-karmāṇi cāpare ātma-saṁyama-yogāgnau juhvati jñāna-dīpite
sarvāṇi —all;  indriya —senses;  karmāṇi —functions;  prāṇa-karmāṇi —functions of the life breath; ca —also;  apare —others;  ātma-saṁyama —controlling the mind;  yoga —linking process;  agnau —in the fire of;  juhvati —offers;  jñāna-dīpite —because of the urge for self-realization.
TRANSLATION
Those who are interested in self-realization, in terms of mind and sense control, offer the functions of all the senses, as well as the vital force [breath], as oblations into the fire of the controlled mind.
PURPORT
The  yoga  system conceived by Patañjali is referred to herein. In the  Yoga-sūtra  of Patañjali, the soul is called  pratyag-ātmā  and  parag-ātmā . As