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Creation of the Kumāras and Others
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TRANSLATION
Then the thread ceremony for the twice-born was inaugurated, as were the rules to be followed for at least one year after acceptance of the Vedas, rules for observing complete abstinence from sex life, vocations in terms of Vedic injunctions, various professional duties in household life, and the method of maintaining a livelihood without anyone's cooperation by picking up rejected grains.
PURPORT
During student life the  brahmacārīs  were given full instructions about the importance of the human form of life. Thus the basic education was designed to encourage the student in becoming free from family encumbrances. Only students who were unable to accept such a vow in life were allowed to go home and marry a suitable wife. Otherwise, the student would remain a permanent  brahmacārī , observing complete abstinence from sex life for his whole life. It all depended on the quality of the student's training. We had the opportunity to meet an avowed  brahmacārī  in the personality of our spiritual master, Om Viṣṇupāda Śrī-Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Gosvāmī Mahārāja. Such a great soul is called a  naiṣṭhika-brahmacārī .
TEXT 43
वैखानसा वालखिल्यौदुम्बराः फेनपा वने । न्यासे कुटीचकः पूर्वं बह्वोदो हंसनिष्क्रियौ ॥४३॥
vaikhānasā vālakhilyau- dumbarāḥ phenapā vane nyāse kuṭī-cakaḥ pūrvam bahvodo hamsa-niṣkriyau
vaikhānasāḥ —the section of men who retire from active life and live on half-boiled meals;  vālakhilya —one who quits his former stock of grains on receipt of more;  audumbarāḥ —one who lives on what he gets from the direction towards which he starts after rising from bed;  phenapāḥ —one who lives on the fruits which automatically fall from the tree;  vane —in the forest;  nyāse —in the order of renunciation;  kuṭī-cakaḥ —life in the family without attachment;  pūrvam —in the beginning;  bahvodaḥ —giving up all material activities and engaging fully in transcendental service;  hamsaḥ —