Vedic Culture: Varṇāśrama-dharma
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have sex life without being married. Therefore in human society there is marriage, not in animal society.
But people are gradually descending from human society to animal society. They are forgetting marriage. That is also predicted in the  śāstras .  Dāmpatye 'bhirucir hetuḥ : in the Kali-yuga [the present age of quarrel], eventually there will be no marriage performances; the boy and the girl will simply agree to live together, and their relationship will exist on sexual power. If the man or the woman is deficient in sex life, then there is divorce. So, for this philosophy there are many Western philosophers like Freud and others who have written so many books. But according to Vedic culture, we are interested in sex only for begetting children, that's all. Not to study the psychology of sex life. There is already natural psychology for that. Even if one does not read any philosophy, he is sexually inclined. Nobody is taught it in the schools and colleges. Everyone already knows how to do it. [ He laughs. ] That is the general tendency. But education should be given to  stop  it. That is real education. [ There is a long pause, filled with the sound of bicycle horns, children playing, and throngs of people calling to one another. ]
BOB:  Presently, in America, that's a radical concept.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Well, in America there are so many things that require reformation, and this  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness movement will bring that. I went to your country and saw that the boys and girls were living like friends, so I said to my students, "You cannot live together as friends; you must get yourselves married."
BOB:  Many people see that even marriage is not sacred, so they find no desire to marry. Because people get married, and if things are not proper, they get a divorce so very easily—