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Prabhupada: Abhirucir, yes. Now formerly marriage was a religious ceremony. Marriage was, this boy and this girl should be married, it is a religious function where the father and mother will see their horoscope and see if they are compatible, they will agree, they will live peacefully. So many things were there. Still, in India such things are calculated by the parents of the boy and the girl. Now, in this Kali-yuga, you see, dampatye abhiruci. Abhiruci means the boy and the girl, if he likes, if he says, that's all. No other calculation. And then, after three days after marriage, they will divorce. [laughter] Because abhiruci, abhiruci: "I like, I don't like," that's all. Now I like, and after three days don't like, finished, business. In Chicago I saw a newspaper. One girl, within three weeks she has divorced two husbands. [laughter] Yes, I saw it in the newspaper. So this... Formerly the father, mother used to see that this boy and girl is going to be married. So by horoscope, by other circumstances, by family, cultural [indistinct], by education, so many things, whether they will live peacefully. That was the understanding. Husband-wife means, a man requires a woman, a woman requires a man. They should be combined in such a way that they can live peacefully. If there is no disturbance of the mind, then they can make further progress in spiritual life. Therefore marriage is also necessary, and that must be properly done. This was the... Now there is no such consideration. The boys and girls are free, and if one likes the other... Dampatye..., what is that?    (More...)

Generally, people..., a man marries. The purpose is to satisfy sex desire. Then he begets children. Then again, when the children are grown up, they..., the daughter is married with another boy and the boy is married with another daughter, another girl. That is also the same purpose: sex. Then again, grandchildren. In this way, this material happiness-sriyaisvarya-prajepsavah. The other day we discussed, sri means beauty, aisvarya means wealth and praja means generation.    (More...)

This material life is sammoha, aham mameti. Atha... The material life begins: pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etat [SB 5.5.8]. This material life is described in four lines. What is this material life? Now, pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam. Etat, this material life, is nothing but an attraction of sex. Pumsam striya. The man is after woman, and woman is after man. This is material life, beginning. Everywhere, not only human society. Even in bird society, dog society, cat society or demigods' society-everywhere you'll see the sex attraction. Pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam tayor mitho hrdaya-granthim ahuh. And... They are seeking, and as soon as they are joined together to satisfy the sex desire, their the, I mean to say, attraction becomes more and more tight. Then ato grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair janasya moho 'yam aham mameti [SB 5.5.8]. So as soon as they are combined, they require one house or apartment or cottage or nest. Something must be private. Atah grha-ksetra. Then to work, to earn livelihood, one must have some land. Either you construct skyscraper building or till it for get some food grain. Atah grha-ksetra, suta. Then without children, married life is frustrated. Putra-hinam grham sunyam. Married life without children is void. Vidya hinam jivanam sunyam. If one is not educated, his life is vacate, or vacant. Vidya hinam jivanam sunyam disah sunya deva abandhavah. And if you go to some foreign country, if there is no deva, temple, God's temple, or friend, that is also useless. And putra-hinam grham sunyam. And if you have no children, the so-called married life is also void. And sarva-sunya daridrata. And if you are poor, in poverty, then everything is zero. Even if you have got a wife, or even if you have got education, even you have got friend, everything is... That is Canakya Pandita's advice.    (More...)

Just like here we are having Bhagavata class. This is not ordinary Bhagavata class, not jumping over Krsna's rasa-lila. It is not like that. It is step by step studying what is Krsna, what is this material world, what is the sambandha, or relationship with Krsna-so many things-how this body has developed, how we have forgotten Krsna, how to revive our Krsna consciousness. These things must be studied first of all. Then we can understand what is Krsna's pastimes with the gopis. But these professional Bhagavata preachers, they go, jump over at once. Because it appears like the dealings of young boys and girls, so that is the... Here in this material world, sex impulse... Here in this material world, sex impulse is the center of all activity. Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham kanduyanena karayor iva duhkha-duhkham [SB 7.9.45]. People are working so hard day and night. What is their happiness? The happiness is sex, that's all. That has been described as tuccham, most abominable. Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham. Atah grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair janasya moho 'yam aham mameti [SB 5.5.8].    (More...)

So this material world means that maithunadi. Maithuna means sex intercourse. That is the beginning of material life. You know very well how strong is sex desires in the Western countries. Even old man going to die, he has also. Although he cannot enjoy sex, still, he is trying his best by medicine, by other means, by intoxication, by stimulant. So that is the only happiness of this material world.    (More...)

The human civilization means to create the population dhira, not to be disturbed by sex impulse. This is human civilization. Not that so many so-called sadhus and... They are now preaching openly the yoga by sex. Yoga by sex. They have invented. Yoga means to find out the Supreme Lord within one's self, within the core of the heart. That is real yoga. Yoga means to connect. To connect with whom? With sex life? No. The sex life connection is there even in the birds, beast, ants, animals, worms-everywhere-because the whole world is going on on sex life. Does it require any yoga system? But people are fallen so down that they have invented, because people want it, and these rascals, they exploit. This is going on.    (More...)

Here in this material world everyone is adhira, agitated, agitated by lusty desires. But in the spiritual world they are dhira. They are not agitated by lusty desires. This is spiritual world. So long we are agitated by the lusty desires, we must know that we are in the material world. That is the test. Just like Yamunacarya says,    (More...)

Na saucam napi cacaro na satyam tesu vidyate. This is a verse from the Sixteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, where the Lord is describing the symptoms of the demons. This pravrttim ca nivrttim ca... Pravrtti means inclination, inclined. And nivrtti means disinclined. So there are two things within this material world. Our inclination is to enjoy the senses. This is general. Everyone within this material world, even the animals, birds, beasts, human being or more elevated than the human beings-the demigods, kinnaras, or the..., many other higher types of living entities... There are different grades of living entities, 8,400,000 different bodies. So what is their pravrtti, inclination? The inclination is attraction of man and woman. This is the central point of attraction. Pumsam striyah maithuni-bhavam etad: the whole material world is existing on this point-sex, man and woman. So this is pravrtti-marga. And nivrtti-marga: just to stop it. This is called nivrtti-marga.    (More...)