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and obeys the commands of his guru at the guru-kula [school of the
spiritual master]. Now schools and colleges are teaching sex from the
very beginning, and twelve- or thirteen-year-old boys and girls are hav-
ing sex. How can they have a spiritual life? Spiritual life means volun-
tarily accepting some austerities for the sake of God realization. That is
why we insist on no illicit sex, meat eating, gambling, or intoxication for
our initiated students. Without these restrictions, any ‘‘yoga meditation’”’
or so-called spiritual discipline cannot be genuine. It is simply a business
deal between the cheaters and the cheated.

Reporter: Thank you very much.

Seila Prabhupada: Hare Krsna.
