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Vedic Culture: Varṇāśrama-dharma February 28, 1972
BOB:  I've asked devotees about how they feel towards sex in their relations, and I see the way they feel, but I can't see myself acting the same way. See, I'll be getting married at the end of this summer.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Hm-m?
BOB:  I'll be getting married at the end of this summer, in September or August when I return to America. And the devotees say that the householders only have sex to conceive a child, and I cannot picture myself at all in such a position, and—What kind of sex life can one lead, living in the material world?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  The Vedic principle is that one should avoid sex life altogether. The whole Vedic principle is to get liberation from material bondage. There are different attachments for material enjoyment, of which sex life is the topmost enjoyment. The  Bhāgavatam  says that this material world . . .
puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etam
Man is attached to woman, and woman is attached to man. Not only in human society—in animal society also. That attachment is the basic principle of material life. So, a
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