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I assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?

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"I assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1969 Conversations and Morning Walks

Oh, yes. Certainly. That is the first condition to accept one as my disciple, because there are some restriction. I don't allow illicit sex life. I don't allow intoxication. I don't allow meat-eating and gambling. So I build up their character. So naturally my followers are very restricted.


Radio Interview -- February 12, 1969, Los Angeles:

Interviewer: I assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines? Is that . . .?

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Certainly. That is the first condition to accept one as my disciple. Because there are some restriction. I don't allow illicit sex life. I don't allow intoxication. I don't allow meat-eating and gambling. So I build up that character. So naturally my followers are very restricted. (chuckles)

Interviewer: Well, now, I'd like to go over in some greater detail what the disciples may and may not do. I think that's where . . . I just wanted to get some of the factual background before we went into that. Now, your . . . the sexual abstinence does not include marriage, I gather.

Prabhupāda: No. Marriage allowed.

Interviewer: Marriage is allowed.

Prabhupāda: I say "illicit sex." Without marriage, sex relation is forbidden.

Interviewer: I see. Would you say that there were times when, well, that there were marriages which were also illicit?

Prabhupāda: No. Of course, in civilized human society, either in India or in any other country, marriage is considered as sanctified, either in Hindu community or Christian community or Muhammadan community. But apart from that, for spiritual advancement, according to Vedic culture, sex indulgence is always restricted.

Interviewer: Always restricted.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Interviewer: For purposes of procreation only?

Prabhupāda: No, no. Yes. Sex, sex intercourse, is recommended only for good children. That's all.

Interviewer: Only to create children.

Prabhupāda: Yes, good children.

Interviewer: Good children. Well, if the parents are good, then there is a remarkable possibility that the children may have a chance to be. Is that not true?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. That is the fact. That is the fact.

Interviewer: And you said that your followers may not drink? What about the drug picture: marijuana, LSD and those?

Prabhupāda: No, no, we don't . . . there is no question, because all kinds of intoxication prohibited. We don't allow even smoking and tea-drinking, coffee-taking. You see? Any kind of intoxication we don't allow.

Page Title:I assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:01 of Dec, 2010
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