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| Human life is meant for controlling the senses, for un-
controlled senses are the cause of material bondage.
But for fools sense enjoyment is the pivot of life’s activi-
ties. All men undergo hard laborious duties all day and
night and in all seasons of the year, only for the sake of
sense pleasure with their mates. These foolish creatures
have no information of other enjoyment. In a godless civiliza-
t tion especially, sense pleasure, accepted in the name of.
3 culture and philosophy, is all and all. Men who are addicted
’ to this pleasure are called krpanas.
When the kmpanas have too many children, they suffer the
scorching heat of family life, and then similar leaders advise
, them to undertake family planning. The idea of this family
planning is that sense pleasure should not be curtailed but
birth control should be accomplished by artificial measures.
Such methods of birth control are called bhrdanahatya, or
killing the child in embryo. Such killing is a sinful act, and in
the revealed scriptures a specific hell is designated for those
who commit such sins.
Spiritual culture means pursuing a better engagement in
; life. When a man engages in such cultural life, the desire
; for mating automatically abates, and the sufferings of
} uncontrolled family life are mitigated without artificial means.
The attention of a human being, therefore, should be
drawn to the cultivation of the human spirit, for this will
: gradually protect him from all sorts of discomfiture and ele-
vate him to a higher status of life for real and eternal enjoy-
ment in personal contact with the Personality of Godhead,
Sri Krsna.e
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