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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
dharmasya dakṣa-duhitary-ajaniṣṭa mūrtyām nārāyaṇo nara iti sva-tapaḥ prabhāvaḥ dṛṣṭvātmano bhagavato niyamāvalopaṁ devyas tv anaṅga-pṛtanā ghaṭituṁ na śekuḥ
dharmasya—of Dharma (the controller of religious principles); dakṣa—Dakṣa, one of the Prajāpatis; duhitari—unto the daughter; ajaniṣṭa—took birth; mūrtyām—of the name Mūrti; nārāyaṇaḥ—Nārāyaṇa; naraḥ—Nara; iti—thus; sva-tapaḥ—personal penances; prabhāvaḥ—strength; dṛṣṭvā—by seeing; ātmanaḥ—of His own; bhagavataḥ—of the Personality of Godhead; niyama-avalopam—breaking the vow; devyaḥ—celestial beauties; tu—but; anaṅga-pṛtanāḥ—companion of Cupid; ghaṭitum—to happen; na—never; śekuḥ—made possible.
TRANSLATION
In order to exhibit His personal way of austerity and penance, He appeared in twin forms as Nārāyaṇa and Nara in the womb of Mūrti, the wife of Dharma and the daughter of Dakṣa. Celestial beauties, the companions of Cupid, went to try to break His vows, but they were unsuccessful, for they saw that many beauties like them were emanating from Him, the Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
The Lord, being the source of everything that be, is the origin of all austerities and penances also. Great vows of austerity are undertaken by sages to achieve success in self-realization. Human life is meant for such  tapasya , with the great vow of celibacy or  brahmacarya . In  the rigid life of tapasya ,  there is no place for the association of woman . And because human life is meant for  tapasya , for self-realization, factual human civilization, as conceived by the system of  sanātana-dharma  or the school of four castes and four orders of life, prescribes rigid dissociation from woman in three stages of life. In the order of gradual cultural development, one's life may be divided in four divisions: celibacy, household life, retirement, and renunciation. During the first stage of life, up to twenty-five years of age, a man may be trained as a  brahmacārī  under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master just to understand that woman is the real binding force in the material existence. If anyone wants to get freedom from the material bondage of conditional life, he must get free from the