Vedic Culture: Varnasrama-dharma 17
even if one has the tendency to enjoy material life, he is so
nicely molded that at last he achieves liberation and goes
back home, back to Godhead. This is the process. So sex life
is not required, but because we are attached to it, therefore
there are some regulative principles under which it is
maintained.

[Chanting starts somewhere in the background, with exotic mrdanga
drumbeats amidst laughing and the loud blowing of horns.]
SRILA PRABHUPADA: It is said in Srimad-Bhagavatam that—
purnsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam
tayor mitho hrdaya-granthim ahuh
ato grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair
janasya moho ’yam aharn mameti
[Bhag. 5.5.8]
This sex life is the basic principle of material life—attach-
ment for man or woman. And when they are united, when
a man and woman are united, that attachment becomes in-
creased, and that increased attachment will induce one to
accumulate grha (a home), ksetra (land), suta (children), dpta
(friendship or society) and vitta, Vitta means money. In this
way — grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittaih —he becomes entangled.
Janasya moho ’yam: this is the illusion. And by this illusion he
thinks, aharh mameti: “I am this body, and anything in rela-
tionship with this body is mine.”
BOB: What is that again?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: This attachment increases. The ma-
terial attachment involves thinking, “I am this body, and
because I have this body in a particular place, that is my
country.’ And that is going on: “I am American, I am In-
dian, Iam German, I am this, I am that—this body. This is
my country. I shall sacrifice everything for my country and
