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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="InterviewwithaGermanGirlandAssortedDevoteesMarch301975Mayapur_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="37" link="Interview with a German Girl and Assorted Devotees -- March 30, 1975, Mayapur" link_text="Interview with a German Girl and Assorted Devotees -- March 30, 1975, Mayapur">
<div class="heading">This gṛhastha life is a concession for sex life. Otherwise, there is no need of gṛhastha life. But everything can be used to make the best use of a bad bargain. That is another thing. Actually, to become free from all responsibility and anxieties, if one remains a brahmacārī, that is very good. That is the recommendation of śāstra.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with a German Girl and Assorted Devotees -- March 30, 1975, Mayapur|Interview with a German Girl and Assorted Devotees -- March 30, 1975, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Haṁsadūta: As a conclusive question, she asks what can we do to help the, (German), the whole movement to continue to expand?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What help?</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: What, what she can do.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Your, these Western countrymen, they are intelligent. So intelligently enlighten them. By intelligent statements, make a peaceful revolution.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Right. Yeah. O.K.?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: As these boys are changing their habits and their ideas, so similarly, it can be done to the mass of people.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Is that all right?</p>
<p>Girl: Ja.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Jaya. (aside:) Stop that also. (break) ...kṛpana bahu-duḥkha-bhājaḥ, yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham ([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.45|SB 7.9.45]]). This gṛhastha life is a concession for sex life. Otherwise, there is no need of gṛhastha life. But everything can be used to make the best use of a bad bargain. That is another thing. Actually, to become free from all responsibility and anxieties, if one remains a brahmacārī, that is very good. That is the recommendation of śāstra. But if you cannot... Because the material world is going on under sex impulse, by nature the sex impulse is there. He will agitate you. But if you can control by becoming a rigid brahmacārī, that is better. But it is difficult. Therefore this concession is given. But what is this concession? The concession is sex life. That's all. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi sukhaṁ hi tuccham kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham. It is an itching sensation. And after satisfying the itching sensation, there are so many responsibilities and trouble. But tṛpyanti neha kṛpanāḥ. Those who are kṛpanāḥ, does not know how to utilize this life... So once I have taken to sex life and I am suffering so many after... Of course, now to stop the suffering, the have invented this contraceptive method. He knows there is suffering, but they, in order to avoid this suffering, they're taking this contraceptive method. And that is also suffering. That he does not know. Bhrun hatyā. Contraceptive method means killing the embryo. So that is also another sinful. He's taking so much responsibilities. So either you take contraceptive method or do not take contraceptive method... If you do not take, then the child is born. Then you have to take responsibility. Now they're killing the child, in this way becoming implicated. But if one is trained up to remain a rigid brahmacārī, there is no trouble. Therefore it is said,</p>
:tṛpyanti neha kṛpanā bahu-duḥkha-bhājaḥ
:kaṇḍutivān manasi yaḥ viṣayeta dhīraḥ
:([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.45|SB 7.9.45]])
<p>I know if I satisfy this itching sensation, I'll be put into so much trouble after it, so if one is dhīra, little sober, he'll better suffer this itching sensation than to take the responsibility. This is the sastric injunction.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda, this (indistinct) In the world I have come to know mostly, I have never seen any, except the word is a true couple. They are married means sex life...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Guest (2): Except devotees, which after contacting, I haven't seen any (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, the whole world is going on. Married life means legalized prostitution. That is their philosophy. So therefore they are, in the Western world, they do not like to marry. And this is also prostitution; that is also prostitution. So let us go on with our illegal prostitution. Why legal prostitution? This is the philosophy. And that is the Freud philosophy. Is it not?</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Yeah.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Even Indians, the same. I...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The Indians, European, doesn't matter. The whole human society is like that.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: His idea is why should we make this sex life so cumbersome by marriage?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Avoid it.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: It's a natural thing just to have sex.</p>
<p>Guest (2): You are following your principles, the four principles...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Avoid it. They are regularly advertising. I have seen in Dallas, "topless, bottomless," like that.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Everywhere.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They do not know. What can be done. Mūḍho 'yaṁ nābhijānāti ([[Vanisource:BG 7.25|BG 7.25]]). They do not know that behind everything there is a supreme power. He'll punish. "Never mind, we shall be punished." You'll become dog. "Oh what is the wrong if I become a dog?" They say like that, "What is the wrong?" He thinks that "I'll get good facilities for sex. There will be no need of apartment. I'll save the rent. To become a dog and have sex life on the street, it is good facility." This is going on.</p>
<p>Guest (2): I have some few questions which I have come here to ask. Permit me to ask, Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that question? Who can answer.</p>
<p>Guest (2): I came in your temple first time in 1970 in Toronto. And, that time, I was just like other Indians, what I think, but I... (end)</p>
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