Vedic Culture: Varnasrama-dharma 19

have sex life without being married. Therefore in human
society there is marriage, not in animal society.

But people are gradually descending from human society
to animal society. They are forgetting marriage. That is also
predicted in the sastras. Dampatye ’bhirucir hetuh: in the Kali-
yuga [the present age of quarrel], eventually there will be
no marriage performances; the boy and the girl will simply
agree to live together, and their relationship will exist on
sexual power. If the man or the woman is deficient in sex
life, then there is divorce. So, for this philosophy there are
many Western philosophers like Freud and others who
have written so many books. But according to Vedic
culture, we are interested in sex only for begetting children,
that’s all. Not to study the psychology of sex life. There is
already natural psychology for that. Even if one does not
read any philosophy, he is sexually inclined. Nobody is
taught it in the scheols and colleges. Everyone already
knows how to do it. [He laughs.] That is the-general ten-
dency. But education should be given to stop it. That is real
education. [There is a long pause, filled with the sound of bicycle
horns, children playing, and throngs of people calling to one another]
BOB: Presently, in America, that’s a radical concept.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Well, in America there are so many
things that require reformation, and this Krsna conscious-
ness movement will bring that. I went to your country and
saw that the boys and girls were living like friends, so I said
to my students, “You cannot live together as friends; you
must get yourselves married.”

BOB: Many people see that even marriage is not sacred, so
they find no desire to marry. Because people get married,
and if things are not proper, they get a divorce so very
easily—
