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If you have sex life in regulated married life, fixed-up husband and wife, then it is austerity

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"If you have sex life in regulated married life, fixed-up husband and wife, then it is austerity"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

If you have sex life in regulated married life, fixed-up husband and wife, then it is austerity. If you don't . . . smoking or intoxicating, we never learned it from our childhood, from our birth. From childhood, we require milk to drink and live. But we have learned by bad association or good association. Similarly, we can give up also these habits by bad association or good association.

What is that austerity? The physician says: "My dear such and such, you are suffering from fever. You should not take this food, that food, that food," or "You should not do like this; you should not go to such and such . . ." So many restrictions. Something do and something do not. So this austerity means do not. That is meant for human society. The animals, they follow also "do not," but by their natural intuition. But we have got developed consciousness. We have got also natural intuition, but because we have got developed consciousness, we sometimes misuse our opportunity and therefore we suffer.

Just like . . . I'll give you another example. We require little salt with our food, but if you take more salt, the food becomes . . . (indistinct) . . . and if there is no salt, you cannot take it. Salt must be there, but to the point. Similarly, so far our sense gratification, we have got our senses. We have got our mouth, we have got our stomach. We require to eat. So we do not stop your eating, but we regulate your eating, that if you eat like this, kṛṣṇa-prasādam, then your life becomes full of austerity.

If you have sex life in regulated married life, fixed-up husband and wife, then it is austerity. If you don't . . . smoking or intoxicating, we never learned it from our childhood, from our birth. From childhood, we require milk to drink and live. But we have learned by bad association or good association. Similarly, we can give up also these habits by bad association or good association.

So tapo divyam. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyet (SB 5.5.1). "My dear boys," Ṛṣabhadeva says, "if you accept this austerity, the principles of austerity, then your existence will be purified." The same example, just a man is suffering from fever. If his fever is cured, then he gets healthy life. And when he's in healthy life, he's free to eat, move, and everything of his business. But so long he's not in healthy life, he's restricted by the physician. Similarly, our present existence, conditional life, is due to this material body.

Page Title:If you have sex life in regulated married life, fixed-up husband and wife, then it is austerity
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-29, 03:30:21
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1