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Vedic Culture: VarnaSsrama-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.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Hm-m?

BOB: I’ll be getting married at the end of this summer, in
September or August avhen I return to America. And the
devotees say that the householders only have sex to con-
ceive 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?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: The Vedic principle is that one
should avoid sex life altogether. The whole Vedic principle
is to get liberation from material bondage. There are dif-
ferent attachments for material enjoyment, of which sex
life is the topmost enjoyment. The Bhagavatam says that this
material world .. .

purnsah striya mithuni-bhavam 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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