Reaching Life’s Perfection 283

Therefore, as far as possible, one has to execute the order of one’s
spiritual master. That will enable one to progress. That is the essence of
the favorable execution of Krsna consciousness. In my old age, I have
come to America, and I am trying to teach Krsna consciousness because
my spiritual master gave me an order that I must do it. It is my duty. I do
not know whether I shall be a success or failure. It doesn’t matter; my
duty is completed if I can present before you whatever I have heard from
my spiritual master. This is called the favorable execution of Krsna con-
sciousness. Those who are actually serious should take the order of
Krsna through the representative of Krsna as their entire life and soul.
One who sticks to this principle is sure to progress. Caitanya Mahaprabhu
spoke in that way, and my spiritual master used to say, ‘‘The spiritual
master is the transparent via medium.”’ For example, I can see the letters
of this book very nicely through these transparent eyeglasses, without
which I cannot see because my eyes are defective. Similarly, our senses
are all defective. We cannot see God with these eyes, we cannot hear
Hare Krsna with these ears, we cannot do anything without the via
medium of the spiritual master. Just as a defective eye cannot see with-
out the via medium of spectacles, so one cannot approach the Supreme
Lord without the transparent via medium of the spiritual master.
‘‘Transparent’’ means that the via medium must be free of contamina-
tion. If it is transparent, one can see through it.

In unalloyed love of Godhead we have to engage our senses—sar-
vendriya, all the senses. This means that sex is also to be engaged in
Krsna consciousness. The conception of God as a father or mother does
not allow the engagement of one’s sex in the service of the Lord because
there is no sexual relationship with the father and mother. But in the con-
ception of God as a lover, there is sexual engagement also. Therefore,
Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave the most perfect information of our engage-
ment with the Supreme Lord. In other religious conceptions of life, God
is at the utmost taken as the father or mother. Many worshipers in India
take goddess Kali to be the representation of God. Of course, that is not
sanctioned, but the belief is there, and also in the Christian religion the
conception of God is as a father. But Caitanya Mahdaprabhu informs us
that one can even have sexual engagement with the Lord. This informa-
tion is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s unique contribution. In this material
world, sexual engagement is considered to be the highest engagement,
the greatest pleasure, although it exists only in a perverted form. No one,
however, has conceived that there can be sexual engagement in the spiri-
tual world. There is not a single instance of such theology anywhere in
