Category:Without Sex
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category centers on the vital role of celibacy and sense control in the pursuit of spiritual perfection. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the material world revolves around sexual attraction as its central pivot, the Vedic civilization is specifically designed to curtail this propensity. Human life is distinguished from animal life by discipline; while animals act on instinct, humans are meant to undergo training to remain without sex life through the systems of brahmacarya, vānaprastha, and sannyāsa. By avoiding or strictly regulating sexual indulgence, a person develops a potent brain, sharp memory, and the unwavering determination necessary for God realization. Ultimately, spiritual progress and sexual indulgence are incompatible, and the true test of spiritual advancement is the ability to find a higher, transcendental happiness that does not depend on material sex pleasure.
- The Foundation of Brahmacarya: The first stage of Vedic life is dedicated to training the student to remain without sex life. This practice of celibacy builds bodily strength, solidifies the brain, and sharpens the memory, providing the essential foundation for all higher knowledge.
- Restriction as Human Civilization: Unlike cats and dogs, human beings are meant to live under discipline. While marriage is a concession for those who cannot remain without sex life, the goal of every social order—whether householder or renounced—is to gradually reduce material attachment.
- Spiritual Vigor versus Material Enthusiasm: Materialists work hard primarily for the enjoyment of sexual intercourse, but a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works with even greater vigor by avoiding it. Spiritual advancement is a secret process of stopping sex life to unlock higher transcendental pleasure.
- The Supreme Example of Creation: In the material world, a wife is required to produce a child, but the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, demonstrates His absolute independence by producing a child without any sex life, proving that the Absolute Truth is beyond material necessity.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Advantages of Choosing a Life Without Sex.
Pages in category "Without Sex"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
A
- A materialistic person, making his wife the center of attraction, works very hard day and night. His only enjoyment in material life is sexual intercourse. Therefore karmis are attracted to women as friends or wives. Indeed, they cannot work without sex
- A person engaged in Krsna consciousness can work with greater vigor without sex pleasure, which he avoids. That is the test in spiritual realization. Spiritual realization and sex pleasure go ill together. BG 1972 purports
- A sannyasi is not supposed to take his wife with him. At the vanaprastha stage of retired life, or the stage midway between householder life and renounced life, one may keep his wife as an assistant without sex relations
- A woman becomes . . . a girl becomes full of youth, lustrous. A man, a boy becomes . . . attraction. Without attraction, there cannot be sex. And without sex, there will be stopped of generation. So by nature these things are there
B
- Because we are now in the conditioned state, it is very difficult to completely deny sex life, there is regulative principle. First of all training: no sex life. If you can remain without sex life, brahmacari, it is very good
- Brahmacari means student, unmarried student, without any sex life. That is brahmacari. And then grhastha, householder. Those who are living with wife and children, they are called householder, grhastha. Then vanaprastha, the retired persons
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H
- Here in the material world, without the assistance of the wife, nobody can produce a child. But there is the tangible example, that Visnu, without any sex life with wife He produced a child
- Human being is meant for marriage, not the cats and dogs. If you can remain without marriage, without sex life, that is very good, but if you cannot, then marry and be gentleman and remain peaceful
I
- If one can continue without sex life he is praised, naisthika-brahmacari. If one cannot, all right you become a perfect grhastha
- If you indulge in sex life, you cannot fix up your mind in anything. That is the effect of brahmacari life. If you remain brahmacari, without sex life, then you can be determined
- In student life, brahmacari system is very nice. If he keeps brahmacari, without any sex life, then his brain becomes very potent. He can remember. Memory becomes very sharp, bodily strength becomes very solid
- In the beginning it was said that without sex life, the determination. Or controlled sex life. If you indulge in sex life, then this determination will not come. Flickering determination. You see? Therefore the sex life should be controlled or given up
- In vanaprastha life, one can live with his wife without any sexual connection, and the most important factor in all orders of life - brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa - is to chant the Hare Krishna Mantra
- It is allowed - it is a simply concession to the person who cannot remain without sex life. It is simply a concession. Otherwise, according to Vedic civilization, there is no need of sex life
- It is essential that one practice self-control by celibacy without the least desire for sex indulgence. For a man desiring to improve the condition of his existence, sex indulgence is considered suicidal, or even worse
J
- Just begin Krsna conscious, and you will find, without sex, you will be happy
- Just like nobody will die without sex life. Nobody will die without meat-eating. Nobody will die without intoxication. Nobody will die without playing gambling. These are learned by association only
- Just like sex life is there, but a tuberculosis patient, if he enjoys sex life, he'll die very soon. Without sex life he could live for some years. Everyone will die. So for tuberculosis patient sex life is strictly prohibited
T
- This sannyasa order, as we have accepted, it is compulsory regulative principle of Vedic way of life. The first twenty-five years brahmacari, strict life of celibacy, student life, without any sex indulgence, complete, up to 25 years. Then grhastha
- Those who are sannyasi, brahmacari, they have no sex life, there is no question of sex life. Sex life is prohibited. But it is a concession for them who cannot live without sex life. That is married life. Otherwise, sex life is not very important thing
V
- Vedic civilization is - first teaching is brahmacari, how to learn to avoid sex life. If one can continue without sex life he is praised, naisthika-brahmacari. If one cannot, all right you become a perfect grhastha, so many rules and regulations
- Vigata-bhir means without any fear. And brahmacari-vrate sthitah, without any sex life. A yogi cannot indulge in sex life. That is the first principle
W
- Whole Vedic civilization is meant for curtailing sex life. First of all brahmacari, no sex life. First of all training is brahmacari, how to train him to remain without sex. That is brahmacari. Tapasa brahmacaryena
- Without sex life one cannot be materially enthusiastic. And if you stop sex life, then you become spiritually advanced. This is the secret
- Without sex life there can be higher transcendental, eternal pleasure, they do not know it. Whole world, whole universe, whole material creation is centered round that. It is the pivot