MW VRN 1975-09-06 Sex Propaganda Can't Stop Death
ANNOUNCER: Next is a morning walk conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on September 6th, 1975, in Vṛndāvana, India.
PRABHUPĀDA: Tapasya begins: Brahmācarya.
Brahmācarya.
Brahmācarya means completely cessation from sex life.
This is brahmācarya.
Tapasya begins: Austerity.
This is the greatest austerity: To cease sex.
Tapasa brahmācarya.
Our Vedic civilization:
The boys are trained how to become brahmacārī from the very beginning of life.
INDIAN: [Hindi] - Ah. [break]
…putrakā yena śuddhyet sattva [SB 5.5.1].
Our existentional position should be purified.
How? Tapo, by tapasya.
tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattva [SB 5.5.1]
“Oh; we are enjoying life.
Why we should undergo tapasya?”
And you are enjoying, but you are not enjoying; you are suffering.
Even if you think you are enjoying, there are so many sufferings.
That—the foolish people— they do not know.
Just like a healthy man, he thinks, “I am enjoying.”
But he does not see that even he is now healthy, he will be an old man,
he’ll be attacked with disease, he will die, and still he thinks, “I am healthy.”
janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9]
Therefore the intelligent man will see that
“Where is my enjoyment if I am going to die?
[I] don’t want to die, but I am going to die.”
That is sure; as sure as anything.
And still the rascal will think that “I am happy.”
He’ll become old man.
He’ll be attacked with disease.
And still he is thinking that he is happy.
Apart from this, there are so many other sufferings, but he thinks that he is happy.
And that happiness is centered around sex; that’s all.
yan maithunadi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham [SB 7.9.45]
Their only happiness is sex.
Therefore, in the Western countries,
they are simply trying to increase the sex enjoyment.
That’s all.
- Is it not? DEVOTEES: Yes.
The whole civilization is based on how to enjoy sex very nicely.
This is their basic principle of civilization.
BRAHMĀNANDA: Always on the best-seller books…
- On the - Huh?
- best-seller charts of the books - Yes.
- there is always some book about how to enjoy sex. - Just see.
There are books here also: Kāma-śāstra.
So, sex enjoyment also you cannot enjoy unlimitedly.
Then you will become impotent.
Then you will have to call your wife as “mother,” as some “saintly” person did.
He was indulging in sex in his young age,
and when he was married he saw himself impotent,
and therefore he invented some way that “I have realized [Brahman].
I can call my wife also ‘mother.’”
And he became famous: “Oh, he is so advanced.
He has learned how to…”
But in the history we will not find this.
Even Vyāsadeva had his wife, but he never said his wife, “mother.”
Actually you’re supposed to see other women as mother.
- Yes. - But not one’s own wife.
No.
Para-dāreṣu.
Mātravat para-dareṣu.
That is the injunction of the śās… Other’s wife.
Not that, “Oh, my wife is also my mother.”
Just see.
This lunacy is going on, and this lunatic man is taken as incarnation of God.
This is [going on].
This homosex propaganda is another side of impotency.
So that is natural.
If you enjoy too much, then you become impotent.
They are trying to make that more and more accepted in America, homosex.
Yes; the churches accept.
It is already law.
The whole world is on the verge of ruination.
Kali-yuga.
So many problems.
Still it is not on the verge of ruination?
It’s on the verge.
That’s all right.
- But still there is… - Why you are a…
very much disturbed with so many problems?
DHANAÑJAYA: They always take the brighter side. - Hmm?
They always take the brighter side.
No; they are discussing, “There will be no more petrol.
There will be no more this, no more that.”
So they are thinking, “Well, then we’ll get the sun power.
Then we’ll get this and we’ll get that.”
Well, that is the problem.
It is not that, “Theoretically here is a problem.
I’ll solve it like this; I’ll…” That is not solution of problem.
Problem is there.
When you actually make solution, then you’ll…
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