Shloka 20
एतेन ब्रह्मचर्येण देवा देवत्वमाप्नुवन् । ऋषयश्चन महाभागा ब्रह्मलोक॑ मनीषिण:,इस ब्रह्मचर्यके पालनसे ही देवताओंने देवत्व प्राप्त किया और महान् सौभाग्यशाली मनीषी ऋषियोंने ब्रह्मलोकको प्राप्त किया
etena brahmacaryeṇa devā devatvam āpnuvan | ṛṣayaś ca na mahābhāgā brahmalokaṁ manīṣiṇaḥ ||
Sanatsujāta teaches that it is through the discipline of brahmacarya—self-restraint and consecrated conduct—that the gods attained their divine status, and that the great, fortunate seer-sages, endowed with insight, reached Brahmaloka.
सनत्सुजात उवाच
Educational Q&A
Brahmacarya—understood as disciplined self-restraint and purity of conduct—functions as a powerful cause of spiritual elevation: it leads to higher states such as devatva (divine status) and access to Brahmaloka.
In the Sanatsujātīya section of Udyoga Parva, Sanatsujāta instructs Dhṛtarāṣṭra on liberation-oriented ethics; here he cites exemplary outcomes—gods and sages attaining exalted realms—to validate brahmacarya as an effective spiritual discipline.