16 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

woman is hankering or seeking after the association of a
man, and a man is hankering or seeking for the association
of a woman. All the fiction novels, dramas, cinema and
even ordinary advertisements that you see simply depict the
attachment between man and woman. Even in the tailor’s
shop you will find in the window some woman and some
man.

pravrttir esa bhutanarn
nivrttis ta mahaphalam

So this attachment is already there.

BOB: Attachment between man and woman?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Man and woman. So if you want to
get liberation from this material world, then that attach-
ment should be reduced to nil. Otherwise, simply further
attachment— You will have to take rebirth, either as a
human being or as a demigod or as an animal, as a serpent,
as a bird, as a beast. You will have to take birth. So, this
basic principle of increasing attachment is not our business,
although it is the general tendency. Grha, ksetra, suta [home,
land, sons]. But if one can reduce and stop it, that is first
class. Therefore our Vedic system is to first of all train a boy
as a brahmacari—no sex life. The Vedic principle is to reduce.
attachment, not to increase it. Therefore the whole system
is called varndsrama-dharma. The Indian system calls for varna
and drama—four social orders and four spiritual orders.
Brahmacarya [celibate student life], grhastha [married life],
vanaprastha [retired life] and sannydsa [renounced life] —
these are the spiritual orders. And the social orders consist
of brahmanas [intellectuals], ksatriyas [administrators], vaisyas
[merchants and farmers] and stidras [ordinary workers]. So
under this system, the regulative principles are so nice that

