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Arr MEX 1975-02-11 No Sex Life in the Spirit Soul
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ANNOUNCER: The following
is an arrival address
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 11th of
February, 1975, in Mexico.
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PRABHUPĀDA: My dear
devotees, ladies and gentlemen,
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I am very glad to see you
again, I think, after four years?
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Three years.
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I was trying to come here
again—I like this place—
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but due to various engagements
and due to my old age also,
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I could not come earlier.
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But this time, by the arrangement
of our Hṛdayānanda Mahārāja,
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I have been forced to come here.
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So I must thank you
for your nice reception.
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I was received by police
escort very nicely,
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and I remember once I traveled
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with the governor of UP in
1962 from Lucknow to Kanpur.
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So exactly we were driving in the same
fashion, escorted by the police motorcycle.
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So anyway, I am so
pleased to see you,
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that you are interested in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement.
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So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is
very, very important for the human society.
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It is not exactly a religious movement as
it is understood in the Western countries.
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Religion is described in the English
dictionary as “a kind of faith.”
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Faith you may accept or may not
accept, but religion is the word,
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as we understand from Sanskrit
dictionary, it cannot be rejected.
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Or you and your religion
cannot be separated.
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Therefore we should understand very
clearly that we are experiencing two things:
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one is matter, and another is spirit.
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Just like there is a stone,
and there is a small ant.
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The stone, it may be very
big, but it cannot move.
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It has no life.
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But the small ant, although
it is very small, it has life.
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So there are two things, we
can very easily understand:
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one is dead matter, and
the other is living force.
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We are actually living force.
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Living force, we are
covered by the matter,
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and according to the
different types of covering,
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we are representing different
types of living condition.
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So this living force, being encaged by the
dead matter, it is a struggle for existence.
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The living force trying to get
out of the material encagement,
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that is called struggle
for existence.
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The living force by
nature is jubilant.
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The supreme living force is God, Kṛṣṇa, and
we are part and parcel of the living force.
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That is stated in the Bhagavad-
gītā, two kinds of energies:
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one material energy,
one spiritual energy.
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The material energy is earth, water,
air, fire, sky, mind, intelligence, etc.,
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and the spiritual energy
is the living force
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which is trying to lord it
over the material energy.
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So,
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apareyam itas tu…
viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parām
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jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat
[Bg. 7.5]
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Kṛṣṇa says that “This
material energy is inferior,
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and the superior energy
is the living being.”
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So this Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement is
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trying to help the living being to come
out of the encagement of material energy.
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And how to become free, that
information is in the Vedic literature.
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So what we are giving
in different literatures…
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We are publishing
books and magazines.
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Simply we are trying
to give information
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how the superior living being can
get out of this material encagement.
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So I am very glad to see you, so
many Kṛṣṇa’s part and parcel.
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You have come to understand
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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So stick to the principles, then
your life will be successful.
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The principle is to purify ourself.
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Just like when a man becomes sick, he has
to purify himself by regulative principle,
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by diet, by medicine, similarly, we
have got this material disease,
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covered by the material body, and
the symptom of miseries are birth,
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death, old age and disease.
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So one who is serious about getting out of
this material bondage and free from birth,
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death, old age and disease, so he
must take to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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It is very simple and easy.
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If you do not know, if
you are not educated,
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if you have no asset, you can simply
chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra,
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and if you are educated, logician,
philosopher, you can read our books,
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which are already
in fifty in number.
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There will be about seventy-five
books of four hundred pages
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to convince the philosopher,
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scientist, educationist what
is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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It is published in English as well
as in other European languages.
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Take advantage of it.
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Along with the Deity worship in this
temple, hold classes at least five hours.
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As in the schools and colleges there are
regular classes, forty-five minutes’ class,
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then five or ten minutes’ recess,
again forty-five minutes’ class,
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in this way, so we have got
enough subject matter to study,
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and if we study all these books, to finish
them it will take at least twenty-five years.
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So you are all young men.
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I request you to engage your time
in reading books, in chanting,
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in Deity worshiping, in going
to preach, selling books.
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Don’t be lazy.
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Always remain engaged.
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Then that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā,
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māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya
ye ’pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ
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striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās
te ’pi yānti parāṁ gatim
[Bg. 9.32]
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There is no discrimination that
“This man should be allowed.
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This woman should
not be allowed.”
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No.
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Kṛṣṇa says, “Anyone.”
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striyaḥ vaiśyās tathā śūdrās Anyone
who takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
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he becomes free from the material
bondage and goes back to Godhead,
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back to home.
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So take seriously about this
movement and execute the principle,
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namely no meat-eating, no illicit
sex, no intoxication, no gambling,
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and chant sixteen rounds.
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That’s all right.
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Now, if there are any
questions from them… [break]
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HṚDAYĀNANDA: If everyone is spirit
soul, then isn’t sex life also spiritual?
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Well, sex life… There is no
sex life in the spirit soul.
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Sex life is in the material body.
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We are not this body, but
because we are in this body,
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therefore we are thinking pleasure
of the body is pleasure of the soul.
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Just like when you are sitting in
a nice car, if the car is damaged,
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the proprietor thinks
that he is damaged.
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But actually he is not
damaged; the car is damaged.
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It is due to our false
identification with the body.
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Therefore we think that
sex life is a pleasure.
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But so long we are in this body, sex life
is not prohibited, but it is regulated.
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By regulative principle, gradually
we can give up sex life.
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Therefore there are
four orders of life.
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The beginning is brahmacārī.
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There it is very nicely taught how to
remain free from material encagement.
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But if one is unable to take immediately
spiritual activity, he is allowed to marry.
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The married life is
regulated sex life.
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Then, after fiftieth year,
one has to give up this.
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In that stage, vānaprastha stage, the
wife is there, but there is no sex life.
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So in this way, when one becomes very
strongly fit not to desire for sex life,
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then he takes sannyāsa.
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That is the perfect stage of life
for spiritual advancement of life.
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Who are we?
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Why are we here and
where are we going?
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You are all living entities.
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You wanted to come here.
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Just like I wanted to come in
your city—I have come here—
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similarly, you wanted to come
to the material world and enjoy.
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So because you wanted to enjoy this
material world, you have come here.
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Kṛṣṇa has allowed to come here, and you
are trying to enjoy this material world.
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That is called struggle
for existence.
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But you’ll never be happy
with this material world.
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It is simply a struggle
for existence.
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Therefore you should go back
to home, back to Godhead.
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Then you’ll be happy. [break]
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…material desires are an obstacle
in our devotional service.
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By engaging yourself
in spiritual activity.
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That’s all.
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