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certain circumstances. Still, the chanting of Hare Krishna is sufficient to elevate
one to the highest spiritual platform.

In the Brahma Samhita there is a nice description of the flute of Krishna.
The purport of the description is thus: “When Krishna began to play on His
flute, the sound vibration entered into the ear of Brahma as the Vedic Mantra,
OM. This OM is composed of three letters: A, U, and M, or a description
of our relationship with the Supreme Lord. It describes our activities to achieve
the highest perfection of love, and the actual position of the loving condition
in the spiritual platform. When the sound vibration of Krishna’s flute became
expressed through the mouth of Brahma, it became Gayatri. Therefore, being
influenced by the sound vibration of the flute of Krishna, Brahma, the supreme
creature and first living entity of this material world, was initiated as a Brahmin.

This remark on Brahma’s becoming a Brahmin, initiated by the flute of
Krishna, is confirmed by Srila Jiva Goswami. When Brahma was enlightened
by the Gayatri Mantra through the flute of Krishna, he became possessed of
all Vedic knowledge. He acknowledged the benediction offered to him by
Krishna, and thus he became the original Spiritual Master of all living entities.

The word Klim added to the Gayatri Mantra is explained in Brahma Samhita
as the transcendental seed of love of Godhead, or the seed of the Kamagayatri.
The object is Krishna, Who is the evergreen Cupid. And, by utterance of
Klim Mantra, Krishna is worshipped. In the Gopal Tapini Upanishad, it is further
stated that when we speak of Krishna as Cupid we should not misunderstand
that He is the Cupid of this material world. As we have explained, Vrindaban
is the Spiritual Abode of Krishna, and so this word Cupid is also spiritual and
transcendental. One should not misunderstand the material Cupid and Krishna
as being on the same level. Material Cupid is the attraction of this external
flesh and body, but the spiritual Cupid is the attraction of the Supersoul upon
the individual soul.

Actually, lust and the sex urge are there in spiritual life, but because the
spirit soul is now embodied in material elements, that spiritual urge is expressed
through this material body; and therefore it is pervertedly reflected. When
one becomes actually conversant in the science of Krishna Consciousness,
he can understand that his material affection of sex life is abominable, whereas
spiritual sex life is desirable.

Spiritual sex life is of two kinds: one completely in the constitutional
position of the self, and the other according to the object. When one has under-
stood the truth about this life but is not completely out of the material con-
tamination, then, although there is an understanding of spiritual life, he is
