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the circumstances, there is no doubt regarding the authority of  Srimad Bhagwatam Puranam . Within five hundred years from the present era, many scholars, even after the time of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, have made elaborate commentaries on the  Bhagwatam Puranam  with unique scholarship; and the serious student will do well to make an attempt to go through them, to relish more happily the transcendental messages from the  Bhagwatam .
Srila Viswanath Chakravarty Thakur specifically deals with the original and pure sex psychology ( Adirasa ) devoid of all mundane inebriety.  The whole material world is turning on the basic principle of sex life.  In the modern human civilization, sex life is the central point of all activities. Wherever we may turn our face we see a great prominence of sex life. Therefore, sex life is not unreal. Its true reality is experienced in the Spiritual World. Material sex life is but a perverted reflection of the original. The original, therefore, is in the Absolute Truth; and the Absolute Truth cannot be impersonal and have a sense of pure sex life. The impersonal monist philosophy has given an indirect impetus to the abominable mundane sex life, because it has given too much stress to the impersonality of the Ultimate Truth. The result is that men who lack knowledge have accepted the perverted sex life as all-in-all without any information about the actual spiritual form of sex. There is a distinction between sex life in the diseased condition of material life and that in the spiritual existence. The  Srimad Bhagwatam  will gradually elevate the unbiased reader to the highest perfectional stage of transcendence, above the three modes of material activities, namely fruitive actions, speculative philosophy, and worshipping the functional deities as they are inculcated in the Vedic verses.
Srimad Bhagwatam  is the embodiment of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. It is therefore situated in a superior position over all other Vedic literature.
The term religiousness includes four primary subjects: namely, (1) pious activities, (2) economic development, (3) satisfaction of the senses, and (4) liberation from the material bondage. Religious life is distinguished from the irreligious life of barbarism, and human life begins from the life of religiousness. The four principles of animal life—eating, sleeping, defending and mating—are common both to the animals and the human beings. Religion is the extra concern of the human being, and without religion the so-called human life is no better than that of the animal. Therefore, in real human society there is some form of religion aiming at self realization, with reference to the eternal relationship with God.
In the lower stage of human civilization there is always a competition in