18 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

society.” So in this way, the illusion increases. And under
this illusion, when he dies he gets another body. That may
be a superior body or inferior body, according to his karma.
So if he gets a superior body, then that is also an entangle-
ment, even if he goes to the heavenly planets. But if he be-
comes a cat or dog, then his life is lost. Or a tree—there is
every chance of it. So this science is not known in the
world—how the soul is transmigrating from one body to
another, and how he is being entrapped in different types of
bodies. This science is unknown. Therefore when Arjuna
was speaking — “If I kill my brother, if I kill my grandfather
on the other side . . .”"—he was simply thinking on the
basis of the bodily concept of life. But when his problems
could not be solved, he surrendered to Krsna and accepted
Him as spiritual master. And when Krsna became his spiri-
tual master, He chastised Arjuna in the beginning:

asocyan anvasocas tvam
prajfia-vadarns ca bhasase

gatdstin agatasiimns ca
nanusocanti panditah

“You are talking like a learned man, but you are fool num-
ber one because you are talking about the bodily concept of
life?’ So this sex life increases the bodily concept of life.
Therefore, the whole process is to reduce it to nil.

BOB: To reduce it over the stages of your life?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. Reduce it. A boy is trained as a
student up to twenty-five years, restricting sex life.
Brahmacari. So, some of the boys remain naisthika-brahmacari
[celibate for life]. Because they are given education and
they become fully conversant with spiritual knowledge,
they don’t want to marry. That is also restricted —he cannot
