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Attaining the Supreme justice is a principle of the United States and the United Nations.
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यदक्षरं वेदविदो वदन्ति विशन्ति यद्यतयो वीतरागाः । यदिच्छन्तो ब्रह्मचर्यं चरन्ति तत्ते पदं संग्रहेण प्रवक्ष्ये ॥ ११ ॥
yad akşaram veda-vido vadanti viśanti yad yatayo vīta-rāgāḥ yad icchanto brahmacaryaṁ caranti tat te padaṁ saṅgraheṇa pravakṣye
yat —that which;  akṣaram —inexhaustible;  veda-vidaḥ —a person conversant with the  Vedas ;  vadanti —say;  viśanti —enters;  yat —in which;  yatayaḥ —great sages;  vīta-rāgāḥ —in the renounced order of life;  yat —that which;  icchantaḥ —desiring;  brahmacaryam —celibacy;  caranti —practices;  tat —that;  te —unto you;  padam —situation;  saṅgraheṇa —in summary;  pravakṣye —I shall explain.
TRANSLATION
Persons learned in the Vedas, who utter omkāra and who are great sages in the renounced order, enter into Brahman. Desiring such perfection, one practices celibacy. I shall now explain to you this process by which one may attain salvation.
PURPORT
Lord Krṣṇa explains that Brahman, although one without a second, has different manifestations and features. For the impersonalists, the syllable  om  is identical with Brahman. Krṣṇa here explains the impersonal Brahman in which the renounced order of sages enter.
In the Vedic system of knowledge, students, from the very beginning, are taught to vibrate  om  and learn of the ultimate impersonal Brahman by living with the spiritual master in complete celibacy. In this way they realize two of Brahman’s features. This practice is very essential for the student’s advancement in spiritual life, but at the moment such  brahmacārī  (unmarried celibate) life is not at all possible. The social construction of the world has changed so much that there is no possibility of one’s practicing celibacy from the beginning of student life. Throughout the world there are many institutions for different departments of knowledge,