Category:Stopping Sex Life
Theme Analysis
The cessation of sex life is a fundamental pillar of spiritual advancement, distinguishing the materialist from the transcendentalist. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while material enthusiasm is driven by sex energy, spiritual determination is generated by conserving that same energy through brahmacarya. The process of stopping sex life is not one of dry repression but of positive replacement; by experiencing the "higher taste" of chanting, dancing, and serving Kṛṣṇa, the devotee naturally loses interest in lower, flickering pleasures. This regulation—whether total celibacy or strict restriction within marriage—is the secret to developing the power and focus necessary for self-realization.
- The Secret of Power: Restraining sex life conserves vital energy, granting a person immense determination and the spiritual strength required for advancement.
- Regulation for Householders: For those unable to stop immediately, the gṛhastha ashram offers a regulated platform where sex is permitted only for procreation, not for sense gratification.
- The Higher Taste: The only effective way to permanently stop the sex urge is to become absorbed in the transcendental pleasure of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which makes material pleasure seem insignificant.
- Cultural Divergence: Śrīla Prabhupāda notes a sharp contrast between Eastern culture, which aims to stop sex life for spiritual liberation, and Western culture, which seeks to increase it.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Stopping Sex Life Through Higher Taste.
Pages in category "Stopping Sex Life"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- If a person who is working in the factory, if you stop sex, he cannot work. And when he's unable to enjoy sex life, then he takes intoxication. This is material life. So energy must be there. Here in the material world the energy is sex
- If one does not want more than one or two children, he should voluntarily stop sex life. But one should not strictly use any contraceptive method and at the same time indulge in sex life
- If the women outnumber the men, some men can accept more than one wife. In that way there will be no prostitution in society. If men can marry more than one wife, illicit sex life will be stopped
- If you want stop population why you are inducing "Indulge in sex life"? Stop sex life - brahmacari. Everything is contradictory
- Indeed, he (the conditioned soul) commits abominable acts that cause him to suffer both in this life and in the next. Consequently illicit sex must be stopped by those who are spiritually inclined or who are on the path of spiritual realization
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- That is the difference between Western and Eastern culture: the whole Eastern culture is based on how to stop sex life, and here in the Western countries, how to increase sex life
- There are eight types of different regulation to stop sex life. But these things are very difficult in this age. Therefore we have simply summarized that don't have sex life beyond the married life. That is not good
- They are so much absorbed in this chanting and dancing, they are no more interested in sex. That is the only way. If you want to stop the pleasure of sex, then you have to take this pleasure, this transcendental pleasure. You'll forget everything
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- You are repenting, so Krsna will excuse you. But never do this again. Rather you should stop sex-life altogether, make this your austerity
- You have to regulate your life. You have to stop sex life. You have to eat certain procedure. You have to sit under certain procedure. In this way, you have to follow so many regulative principles
- You should always live with your husband and help him with his personal comforts, and he will look after your all necessities of life. There is no question of separation. By mutual agreement and advancement of Krishna Consciousness you can stop sex life
- Younger generation, they're allowed grhastha life from twenty-five years to fifty years. That's all. After that, stop sex life