On the Road to Macedonia

Today we are heading out for Macedonia by car. My disciple, Sarvabhauma Das, will drive us up into the mountains where we will cross the border by foot at a high elevation border station to be picked up by the Macedonian devotees who will then drive us down from the mountains to Skopje for a couple of days of hearing, chanting, and remembering the inconceivable glories of that amazingly wonderful, unlimitedly sweet transcendental Lord, Sri Krishna. There is no doubt in my mind that Krishna is God. Otherwise how could I go on continuously for thirty-seven years doing nothing else except absorbing myself in Him without getting bored? I have sweet memories of my visit to Macedonia two years ago, and I'm very much looking forward to again being with the Macedonian devotees. The secret of advancing rapidly in Krishna consciousness is to as much as possible cultivate loving relationships with devotees. My around-the-world lecture tours give me a wonderful opportunity to do this. We get to have a great time while we fully absorb ourselves in revolutionizing this planet. What a life!

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why No Sex for Pleasure?

It has been mentioned in one of the regulative principles that sex is only meant only for procreation. Why not sex for pleasure? Sex is harmless. No killing is involved like in meat eating. Moreover, sex is natural. It was born in each one of us. We did not create it artificially like alcohol or drugs, and sex is also the most powerful of human emotions. So what is wrong in sex for pleasure?

Please enlighten me. I would be ever grateful for your spiritual perspective on the above.

best wishes,

Your aspiring student.

Answer: Why Limit Ourselves to Misery?

Sex for pleasure murders the spiritual consciousness of those who indulge in it. The root cause of all our suffering is misidentification with the material body. The only way to get free from the sufferings of material existence is to fully realize that we are not our bodies. There is nothing that reinforces the bodily misconception more powerfully than sex indulgence. Therefore those who are realized in transcendental knowledge completely give up sex or cut it to the bare minimum by only using it for producing saintly children.

The transcendentalist is not frustrated by giving up sex. Rather he increases his pleasure by millions and billions of times because the pleasure of reawakening one's loving emotional relationship with the Supreme Person, the Source of all existence, is millions of light years beyond the pleasure of scratching the itch of sex desire through sexual intercourse.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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