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certain circumstances. Still, the chanting of  Hare Krishna  is sufficient to elevate one to the highest spiritual platform.
In the  Brahma Samhita  there is a nice description of the flute of Krishna. The purport of the description is thus: “When Krishna began to play on His flute, the sound vibration entered into the ear of Brahma as the Vedic Mantra, OM. This OM is composed of three letters: A, U, and M, or a description of our relationship with the Supreme Lord. It describes our activities to achieve the highest perfection of love, and the actual position of the loving condition in the spiritual platform. When the sound vibration of Krishna’s flute became expressed through the mouth of Brahma, it became  Gayatri . Therefore, being influenced by the sound vibration of the flute of Krishna, Brahma, the supreme creature and first living entity of this material world, was initiated as a Brahmin.
This remark on Brahma’s becoming a Brahmin, initiated by the flute of Krishna, is confirmed by Srila Jiva Goswami. When Brahma was enlightened by the  Gayatri Mantra  through the flute of Krishna, he became possessed of all Vedic knowledge. He acknowledged the benediction offered to him by Krishna, and thus he became the original Spiritual Master of all living entities.
The word  Klim  added to the  Gayatri Mantra  is explained in  Brahma Samhita  as the transcendental seed of love of Godhead, or the seed of the  Kamagayatri . The object is Krishna, Who is the evergreen Cupid. And, by utterance of  Klim Mantra , Krishna is worshipped. In the  Gopal Tapini Upanishad , it is further stated that when we speak of Krishna as Cupid we should not misunderstand that He is the Cupid of this material world. As we have explained, Vrindaban is the Spiritual Abode of Krishna, and so this word  Cupid  is also spiritual and transcendental. One should not misunderstand the material Cupid and Krishna as being on the same level. Material Cupid is the attraction of this external flesh and body, but the spiritual Cupid is the attraction of the Supersoul upon the individual soul.
Actually, lust and the sex urge are there in spiritual life, but because the spirit soul is now embodied in material elements, that spiritual urge is expressed through this material body; and therefore it is pervertedly reflected. When one becomes actually conversant in the science of Krishna Consciousness, he can understand that his material affection of sex life is abominable, whereas spiritual sex life is desirable.
Spiritual sex life is of two kinds: one completely in the constitutional position of the self, and the other according to the object. When one has understood the truth about this life but is not completely out of the material contamination, then, although there is an understanding of spiritual life, he is