Category:Adultery
Theme Analysis
Adultery is treated as a serious disturbance because it breaks the purity needed for family stability, social peace, and spiritual progress. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that unregulated sex life produces unwanted children, varṇa-saṅkara, and such disorder affects the whole world through impurity, conflict, and loss of sacred duties like śrāddha. The quotes also connect adultery with the collapse of varṇāśrama-dharma, because when social and religious protections fail, men and women mix irresponsibly and society becomes vulnerable to degradation. At a deeper level, the same principle applies to consciousness: the soul's activity becomes adulterated by contact with matter, and one's relationship with Kṛṣṇa may become distorted as rasābhāsa. Purity must therefore protect both family life and devotional life.
- Chastity Protects Society: A faithful woman must not practice adultery, because such conduct is sinful and socially destructive. Chastity supports purity, family stability, and the sacred duties that sustain civilization.
- Adultery Produces Varṇa-saṅkara: Adultery leads to unwanted children who disturb the world. Arjuna feared that war would leave women unprotected, increase adulteration, and produce population that would neglect śrāddha.
- Varṇāśrama Restrains Disorder: When varṇāśrama-dharma fails, social roles and protections break down, and adultery becomes more likely. Regulated life protects men, women, children, and the purity of society.
- Devotion Must Not Be Adulterated: Material contact adulterates the soul's activity through lust, desire, and hankering. Pure devotion fixes the mind on Vāsudeva without material desires or distorted rasa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Adultery Shows Why Purity Must Protect Family and Devotion.
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Pages in category "Adultery"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- On the failure of varnasrama-dharma, naturally the women become free to act and mix with men, and thus adultery is indulged in at the risk of unwanted population. BG 1972 purports
- One cannot practice yoga in a congested city, living a life of extravagancy, including unrestricted sex indulgence and adultery of the tongue
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- Rantideva fixed his mind upon Lord Vasudeva and rendered devotional service unto Him. This is the sign of a pure devotee, whose heart is not adulterated by material desires
- Rasabhasa occurs when one’s relationship with Krsna is adulterated. There are different types of rasabhasa - first class, second class and third class. The word rasa means “mellow,” and abhasa means a shadow
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- The great sage Jamadagni understood the adultery in the mind of his wife. Therefore he was very angry and told his sons, "My dear sons, kill this sinful woman!" But the sons did not carry out his order
- The soul's activity becomes adulterated in contact with matter, and as such the diseased activities are expressed in the form of lust, desire, hankering, inactivity, foolishness and sleep