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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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If we can beget children to develop them with Kṛṣṇa consciousness and thus become liberated from the clutches of repeated birth and death, that is the duty of the father and mother rightly followed. Otherwise we become entangled.
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[[Vanisource:710405 - Lecture BG 07.11-13 - Bombay|710405 - Lecture BG 07.11-13 - Bombay]]
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Prabhupāda: Kaśyapa Muni and Diti. Diti. The wife was very sexually agitated, and she requested the husband to have sexual intercourse. The husband said: "No. This is not the proper time." I am describing the story shortly. But the wife was too much agitated. So she obliged the husband to have sex life with her, and after sex life the Kaśyapa Muni said that "Your sons will be demons."

Indian man: Kaśyapa.

Prabhupāda: Kaśyapa, yes. So as a result of untimely sex life, two demons were born.

So there is regulation of sex life. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, dharma-aviruddha: sex life is sanctioned under certain conditions. That is humanity. Not like . . . even the cats' and dogs' life there is some limitation. They have got a period of sex life. Similarly, for gṛhastha, there is a period for sex life. After menstrual period, five days after menstrual period, one may have sex life for begetting children. And if the woman or wife is pregnant, then there is no more sex life till the child is born and six months old. These are the regulations.

And besides that, when there is sex life, there is a ceremony. It is not a secret thing. They could call, especially for the brāhmiṇs, they would call friends. Just like Hindu marriage takes place not by agreement but amongst the . . . in the presence of agni and friends and relatives and brāhmiṇs. That is sufficient witness. Similarly, when a brāhmiṇ goes to have sex intercourse for begetting child, there is a big ceremony. All the relatives, all the learned brāhmiṇs are present, and with their permission he goes for sex life. Sanctity.

Therefore the child is born very nice. Because in such family, ordinary living entity cannot come. Śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe yoga-bhraṣṭo sanjāyate ([[Vanisource:BG 6.41 (1972)|BG 6.41]]). In the family of a pure brāhmiṇ, śucīnām, or in the family of rich man, yoga-bhraṣṭo sanjāyate, the persons who have not executed the yoga system completely or somehow or other fallen down, they are given the chance of taking birth in nice brāhmiṇ family or rich man's family. So they also take care how to beget children. That is garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. This is called dharma-aviruddha-kāma. This kāma is sanctioned. Otherwise you'll beget demons, just like Kaśyapa Muni, untimely sex.

So therefore Kṛṣṇa says: "When there is sexual intercourse according to the scriptural injunction, that is I am." Kṛṣṇa says: "I am that sexual intercourse." In such kind of sexual intercourse there is no sin. That is another yajña. Just like we eat kṛṣṇa-prasādam by offering yajña. Yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.13 (1972)|BG 3.13]]). If we take kṛṣṇa-prasādam, then we become freed from all kinds of sinful reaction.

Because the material world is so made that willingly or unwillingly . . . if you are not willing, unwillingly you have to commit so many sinful actions. Just like to kill an animal is sinful action, but you don't want to kill. Still, when you are passing on the street, you are killing so many ants. While drinking water, besides the . . . all around the water jug there are so many animals. When you crush, I mean to say, spices, we kill so many animals.

So we are responsible for that. Because in the Bhagavad-gītā you know, bhuñjate te tv aghaṁ pāpā ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt ([[Vanisource:BG 3.13 (1972)|BG 3.13]]). If you simply cook for your sense gratification, then you have to take responsibility of all the killing business. But if you offer to Kṛṣṇa and take the prasādam, you become free from the contamination. Similarly, we require to eat, we require to sleep, we require to mate and we require to defend. If these things are done on account of Kṛṣṇa or as enjoined in the śāstra . . .

Śāstra means, as I have already told you, the orders of Kṛṣṇa or orders of God. Sādhu-śāstra-guru. They are the same thing. There is no difference. A sādhu follows the orders of the scriptures. A guru follows the order of the scriptures. And śāstra is description of the Supreme Lord. Just like we are reading Bhagavad-gītā. These are the injunction of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore it is śāstra. Or anyone who writes in terms of the śāstra, that is right direction. If we speak Bhagavad-gītā as Kṛṣṇa desires, then it is right. And if we describe Bhagavad-gītā to fulfil our ulterior motives for some purpose, then it is useless.

So similarly, Kṛṣṇa said, dharmāviruddho bhūteṣu kāmo 'smi bharatarṣabha. Those who are not following the principles how to beget child, or not observing the garbhādhāna-saṁskāra, according to śāstra, immediately the family becomes converted into śūdra. No more brāhmiṇ, no more kṣatriya, if he does not follow. This is very easy to understand. If you do something illegally, against the law, immediately you become a criminal. Similarly, dharmāviruddha. The garbhādhāna-saṁskāra has to be observed. Otherwise we become śūdra, no more brāhmiṇ, no more kṣatriya.

So it is very difficult to say at the present moment whether garbhādhāna-saṁskāra is observed. At least, in garbhādhāna-saṁskāra we understand that "This child is born of a real brāhmiṇ." But without garbhādhāna-saṁskāra, who knows how the child is born? Nobody knows except the mother. Therefore the śāstra says, "In this age, Kali-yuga, because this garbhādhāna-saṁskāra is not observed regularly," kalau śūdrāḥ sambhavāḥ, "everyone in the Kali-yuga is a śūdra, because the garbhādhāna-saṁskāra is not observed."

Of course, those who are observing . . . but it is very hard to say who is observing. But if it is not observed, then any child born, either in the brāhmiṇ family or kṣatriya family or vaiśya family, because the garbhādhāna-saṁskāra is not observed, it is to be understood that that child is śūdra.

Even if the garbhādhāna-saṁskāra is observed, still, by birth, it is accepted that every child is a śūdra. Janmanā jāyate śūdraḥ saṁskārād bhaved dvijaḥ. And if the regulative purificatory processes are adopted, then he becomes dvija. Dvija means twice-born. First-born by the father and mother, and his second birth is by the spiritual master and Vedic knowledge. Veda-mātā. Vedic knowledge and the spiritual master gives another birth. Upanayana-saṁskāra.

Upanayana. Upanayana, means coming nearer to the understanding of Vedic knowledge, upanayana, or coming nearer to the spiritual master. Then he begins studying of Vedas. Veda-pāṭhād bhaved vipraḥ. When he has studied nicely Vedas, then he becomes a vipra. And when he understands the Supreme Lord or the Para-brahman, then he is brāhmiṇ. This is the process.

So at the present moment this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is meant for creating nice brāhmiṇs with qualification. Satyaṁ śamo damas titikṣā ārjavaṁ jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]). So Kṛṣṇa says that "Regular principle sex life is all right. That is I am." That is Kṛṣṇa. If we can beget children to develop them with Kṛṣṇa consciousness and thus become liberated from the clutches of repeated birth and death, that is the duty of the father and mother rightly followed. Otherwise we become entangled.
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