So he became... The training was that he was training to become a brahmana, samo, dama, but the progress became checked on account of being attached to a woman. Therefore according to Vedic civilization, the woman is accepted as hindrance to spiritual advancement. The whole basic civilization is how to avoid... Woman... You do not think that only woman is woman. The man is also woman. Don't think that the woman is condemned; man is not. Woman means enjoyed, and man means enjoyer. So this feeling, this feeling is condemned. If I see one woman for enjoyment, so I am man. And if woman also sees another man for enjoyment, she is also man. Woman means enjoyed and man means enjoyer. So anyone who has got feeling of enjoyment, he is considered to be man. So here both sexes meant for... Everyone is planning, "How I shall enjoy?" Therefore he is purusa, artificially. Otherwise, originally, we are all prakrti, jiva, either woman or man. This is outward dress.

In the Bhagavad-gita it is said,

So this man, although he was being trained up as a brahmana, his attention was diverted all of a sudden by seeing one sudra and sudrani embracing, kissing, talking. So that became his meditation. Instead of meditating on Visnu, he began to meditate on that sudrani. Svayam eva tosayam asa. In the first verse, tan-nimitta-smara vyaja-graha-grasto vicetasah. He became mad, vicetasa, bewildered, as if haunted by ghost. Tam eva manasa dhyayan. Always meditating, "How shall I get that woman? How shall I please that woman so that she may satisfy my lusty desires?" Therefore tam eva tosayam asa: "His only business was how to please her." Now they require money. So he was not earning money, but pitryena, whatever money he inherited from the father's earning... The son generally inherits father's property. He was the only son. So he was squandering the father's money in that way just to please that sudrani-tam eva tosayam asa pitryenarthena yavataas much as possible. If he could get more money, then he would have spent them only for that women. Gramyaih. Gramyair manoramaih. This word gramya is very significant. Gramya means external, material. Gramyair manoramaih. By the sense gratification, whatever we find very pleasing, that is called gramya manorama. Actually that is not pleasing. That is entangling. But he became entangled. So gramyair manoramaih kamaih. The basic principle is lust. Kamaih prasideta yah. Wanted to satisfy the woman here and there as soon as meets. We can see these examples very often. Then next step was,

So in this way the material world is very, very entangled. And if we become Krsna conscious, then we become free from this entanglement. All these criticisms or the divisions are there for gramyaih. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised, grama-katha na sunibe, bhala na khaibe na bhala na paribe. This is vairagya"Don't indulge in gramya-katha." Therefore we always advise, "Don't read newspaper. Don't read any other book," because it is full of gramya-katha, gramyaih. So to avoid it as far as possible. There is no need. What is the news of a gramya-katha newspaper? The same thing repeated. "Here there is flood, where there is train disaster, where there is accident, and political, and one politician is giving speech, another politician is giving speech." These are the gramya things. So we should save ourself. Gramyair manoramaih. These externally very attractive news, we should avoid it completely. We shall simply talk of Krsna. That is the safest method. We shall simply talk krsna-katha. And krsna-katha means what Krsna has said. That is krsna-katha. Or what is spoken about Krsna. So Bhagavad-gita means krsna-katha, what Krsna has said. And Srimad Bhagavatam is also krsna-katha because everything said about Krsna. So we don't We should not indulge in gramya-katha. That will mislead us. And if we do not indulge in gramya-katha, but if we make advancement on Krsna-katha, then we are always situated on transcendental position. We are no more affected by the modes of material nature. Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]. So we should stick to this principle. Then we shall be saved. Otherwise, either I become man or woman, we are all condemned because we are implicated with gramya-katha.

So gramya-katha should be avoided. The temple is specially meant for Krsna-katha. Here there is no other business than Krsna. Therefore a temple is always transcendental, nirguna. Nirguna. If you live in the forest, that is sattva-guna. If you live in the city, that is rajo-guna. And if you live in the brothel or liquor house or gambling house, that is tamo-guna. But if you live in the temple, that is nirguna. Traigunya-visaya-veda nistraigunyo bhavarjuna. This is advice of Krsna. The whole world is complicated with the three modes of material nature, and you have to become above this material nature. Nistraigunyo bhavarjuna. So nistraigunya, how you can become? Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]. Who... (end)