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️ The sannyasis celibacy: An exemplary story by Srila Prabhupada 🌿 "I am sannyāsī. I have forbidden to associate with women. I can not even talk to a woman in a solitary place. It is forbidden. I will give them a practical example. When my Guru Mahārāja (my spiritual teacher) was alive — this happened about fifty years ago — we were all young at that time. One of my spiritual brothers, Dr. O. B. Kapoor, was also young, and his wife was also. She wanted to talk to my Guru Mahārāja. At that time, my Guru Mahārāja would be at least sixty years or older, and my friend's wife, a young girl of no more than twenty-two years old, could be virtually as a daughter-in-law. But
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