0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,783 MW VRN 1975-09-06 Sex Propaganda Can't Stop Death 1 00:00:02,784 --> 00:00:05,474 ANNOUNCER: Next is a morning walk conversation 2 00:00:05,475 --> 00:00:11,056 with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 3 00:00:11,057 --> 00:00:21,907 recorded on September 6th, 1975, in Vṛndāvana, India. 4 00:00:21,908 --> 00:00:26,425 PRABHUPĀDA: Tapasya begins: Brahmācarya. 5 00:00:26,426 --> 00:00:27,876 Brahmācarya. 6 00:00:27,877 --> 00:00:34,489 Brahmācarya means completely cessation from sex life. 7 00:00:34,490 --> 00:00:38,785 This is brahmācarya. 8 00:00:38,786 --> 00:00:42,067 Tapasya begins: Austerity. 9 00:00:42,068 --> 00:00:50,333 This is the greatest austerity: To cease sex. 10 00:00:50,334 --> 00:01:05,052 Tapasa brahmācarya. 11 00:01:05,053 --> 00:01:08,604 Our Vedic civilization: 12 00:01:08,605 --> 00:01:18,612 The boys are trained how to become brahmacārī from the very beginning of life. 13 00:01:18,613 --> 00:01:25,096 INDIAN: [Hindi] - Ah. [break] 14 00:01:25,097 --> 00:01:29,255 …putrakā yena śuddhyet sattva [SB 5.5.1]. 15 00:01:29,256 --> 00:01:38,285 Our existentional position should be purified. 16 00:01:38,286 --> 00:01:43,569 How? Tapo, by tapasya. 17 00:01:43,570 --> 00:01:49,985 tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattva [SB 5.5.1] 18 00:01:49,986 --> 00:01:52,373 “Oh; we are enjoying life. 19 00:01:52,374 --> 00:01:59,009 Why we should undergo tapasya?” 20 00:01:59,010 --> 00:02:04,894 And you are enjoying, but you are not enjoying; you are suffering. 21 00:02:04,895 --> 00:02:10,164 Even if you think you are enjoying, there are so many sufferings. 22 00:02:10,165 --> 00:02:21,070 That—the foolish people— they do not know. 23 00:02:21,071 --> 00:02:24,631 Just like a healthy man, he thinks, “I am enjoying.” 24 00:02:24,632 --> 00:02:31,438 But he does not see that even he is now healthy, he will be an old man, 25 00:02:31,439 --> 00:02:46,272 he’ll be attacked with disease, he will die, and still he thinks, “I am healthy.” 26 00:02:46,273 --> 00:02:50,187 janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9] 27 00:02:50,188 --> 00:02:54,091 Therefore the intelligent man will see that 28 00:02:54,092 --> 00:02:58,626 “Where is my enjoyment if I am going to die? 29 00:02:58,627 --> 00:03:01,467 [I] don’t want to die, but I am going to die.” 30 00:03:01,468 --> 00:03:04,125 That is sure; as sure as anything. 31 00:03:04,126 --> 00:03:09,119 And still the rascal will think that “I am happy.” 32 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,478 He’ll become old man. 33 00:03:11,479 --> 00:03:14,585 He’ll be attacked with disease. 34 00:03:14,586 --> 00:03:17,714 And still he is thinking that he is happy. 35 00:03:17,715 --> 00:03:25,223 Apart from this, there are so many other sufferings, but he thinks that he is happy. 36 00:03:25,224 --> 00:03:37,088 And that happiness is centered around sex; that’s all. 37 00:03:37,089 --> 00:03:41,999 yan maithunadi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham [SB 7.9.45] 38 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:54,478 Their only happiness is sex. 39 00:03:54,479 --> 00:03:57,341 Therefore, in the Western countries, 40 00:03:57,342 --> 00:04:02,546 they are simply trying to increase the sex enjoyment. 41 00:04:02,547 --> 00:04:10,064 That’s all. 42 00:04:10,065 --> 00:04:12,294 - Is it not? DEVOTEES: Yes. 43 00:04:12,295 --> 00:04:20,161 The whole civilization is based on how to enjoy sex very nicely. 44 00:04:20,162 --> 00:04:27,601 This is their basic principle of civilization. 45 00:04:27,602 --> 00:04:29,822 BRAHMĀNANDA: Always on the best-seller books… 46 00:04:29,823 --> 00:04:30,818 - On the - Huh? 47 00:04:30,819 --> 00:04:33,153 - best-seller charts of the books - Yes. 48 00:04:33,154 --> 00:04:41,170 - there is always some book about how to enjoy sex. - Just see. 49 00:04:41,171 --> 00:04:46,757 There are books here also: Kāma-śāstra. 50 00:04:46,758 --> 00:04:54,991 So, sex enjoyment also you cannot enjoy unlimitedly. 51 00:04:54,992 --> 00:04:59,105 Then you will become impotent. 52 00:04:59,106 --> 00:05:08,244 Then you will have to call your wife as “mother,” as some “saintly” person did. 53 00:05:08,245 --> 00:05:11,901 He was indulging in sex in his young age, 54 00:05:11,902 --> 00:05:17,557 and when he was married he saw himself impotent, 55 00:05:17,558 --> 00:05:23,788 and therefore he invented some way that “I have realized [Brahman]. 56 00:05:23,789 --> 00:05:27,228 I can call my wife also ‘mother.’” 57 00:05:27,229 --> 00:05:32,517 And he became famous: “Oh, he is so advanced. 58 00:05:32,518 --> 00:05:34,730 He has learned how to…” 59 00:05:34,731 --> 00:05:36,638 But in the history we will not find this. 60 00:05:36,639 --> 00:05:46,332 Even Vyāsadeva had his wife, but he never said his wife, “mother.” 61 00:05:46,333 --> 00:05:50,482 Actually you’re supposed to see other women as mother. 62 00:05:50,483 --> 00:05:52,393 - Yes. - But not one’s own wife. 63 00:05:52,394 --> 00:05:53,768 No. 64 00:05:53,769 --> 00:05:55,415 Para-dāreṣu. 65 00:05:55,416 --> 00:05:56,883 Mātravat para-dareṣu. 66 00:05:56,884 --> 00:06:00,894 That is the injunction of the śās… Other’s wife. 67 00:06:00,895 --> 00:06:05,133 Not that, “Oh, my wife is also my mother.” 68 00:06:05,134 --> 00:06:05,781 Just see. 69 00:06:05,782 --> 00:06:15,147 This lunacy is going on, and this lunatic man is taken as incarnation of God. 70 00:06:15,148 --> 00:06:37,774 This is [going on]. 71 00:06:37,775 --> 00:06:55,823 This homosex propaganda is another side of impotency. 72 00:06:55,824 --> 00:06:57,155 So that is natural. 73 00:06:57,156 --> 00:07:11,070 If you enjoy too much, then you become impotent. 74 00:07:11,071 --> 00:07:17,334 They are trying to make that more and more accepted in America, homosex. 75 00:07:17,335 --> 00:07:19,355 Yes; the churches accept. 76 00:07:19,356 --> 00:07:26,979 It is already law. 77 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:32,637 The whole world is on the verge of ruination. 78 00:07:32,638 --> 00:07:39,548 Kali-yuga. 79 00:07:39,549 --> 00:07:41,084 So many problems. 80 00:07:41,085 --> 00:07:43,968 Still it is not on the verge of ruination? 81 00:07:43,969 --> 00:07:45,146 It’s on the verge. 82 00:07:45,147 --> 00:07:47,018 That’s all right. 83 00:07:47,019 --> 00:07:50,548 - But still there is… - Why you are a… 84 00:07:50,549 --> 00:07:56,530 very much disturbed with so many problems? 85 00:07:56,531 --> 00:07:59,357 DHANAÑJAYA: They always take the brighter side. - Hmm? 86 00:07:59,358 --> 00:08:02,718 They always take the brighter side. 87 00:08:02,719 --> 00:08:06,443 No; they are discussing, “There will be no more petrol. 88 00:08:06,444 --> 00:08:09,369 There will be no more this, no more that.” 89 00:08:09,370 --> 00:08:12,146 So they are thinking, “Well, then we’ll get the sun power. 90 00:08:12,147 --> 00:08:15,030 Then we’ll get this and we’ll get that.” 91 00:08:15,031 --> 00:08:18,287 Well, that is the problem. 92 00:08:18,288 --> 00:08:22,287 It is not that, “Theoretically here is a problem. 93 00:08:22,288 --> 00:08:26,310 I’ll solve it like this; I’ll…” That is not solution of problem. 94 00:08:26,311 --> 00:08:29,146 Problem is there. 95 00:08:29,147 --> 00:08:42,216 When you actually make solution, then you’ll… 96 00:08:42,217 --> 00:08:42,218 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com