Fearless in the Face of Death

The devotee is not at all afraid of death because he knows absolutely that he will never die. He simply goes on serving Krishna in all circumstances. It is does matter to him whether he serves Krishna in his present body or in another body. Therefore he is completely detached from all material things. All he cares about is serving Krishna, and that he does continuously in great delight in ever-expanding bliss for all of eternity.

Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture--Vrindavan, India--23 April 2016

Sankarshan Das giving Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture--Vrindavan, India

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Question: How to Engage Sex Desire in Krishna's Service

The living entity has sex desire because Krishna has sex desire. Of course, Krishna is perfectly using His sex desire, but for the conditioned living entity, this sex desire becomes a cause of bondage.

For example, I have been practicing Krishna consciousness for over 12 years, but I still see my eye drawn to a scantily clad woman or a couple engaged in sexual activity or some other such abominable sight. I have done my best to engage this sex desire by having a child, but clearly there is more of it that cannot be properly engaged in Krishna consciousness at this time.

How would I engage my sex desire in Krishna's service at this time?

How would I ever overcome this nasty sex desire and prevent it from disturbing me in my Krishna consciousness?

And if one day, a conditioned soul becomes actually a pure devotee and liberated, how would that liberated soul engage the sex desire? I mean, in the spiritual world there is no birth or death, no sex - what does the pure devotee do with this sex desire that is in everyone because it is in Krishna?

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Answer: Make Whole World Pregnant with Love of God

Although Krishna is always engaged in the spiritual world in loving affairs with His gopi girlfriends, He does not engage in sexual intercourse with any of them. Nor do His devotees have sex with anyone. Since everyone there is an eternal youth, there is no birth in the spiritual world. And since sex is only meant for giving birth, there is thus no need for sex in the spiritual world.

So how to get free from the botheration of sex desire?

One who embraces the greater sex desire of impregnating all living entities with Krishna bhakti becomes so much satisfied and gratified that he finds even the thought of ordinary sex to be abominable and disgusting. Such a magnanimous soul always maintains the following mood within his heart:

svasty astu viśvasya khalaḥ prasīdatāṁ
dhyāyantu bhūtāni śivaṁ mitho dhiyā
manaś ca bhadraṁ bhajatād adhokṣaje
āveśyatāṁ no matir apy ahaitukī

"May there be good fortune throughout the universe, and may all envious persons be pacified. May all living entities become calm by practicing bhakti-yoga, for by accepting devotional service they will think of each other's welfare. Therefore let us all engage in the service of the supreme transcendence, Lord Sri Krishna, and always remain absorbed in thought of Him.”--Srimad Bhagavatam 5.18.9

There is so much sublime pleasure in this mood of being the well-wisher of all living beings that if the thought of sex enters the mind of such a devotee, he immediately rejects it as disgusting. This is nicely described in the following verse of Sri Yamunacarya, a great saint and devotee::

yad-avadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṇa-pādāravinde
nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyataṁ rantum āsīt
tad-avadhi bata nārī-saṅgame smaryamāne
bhavati mukha-vikāraḥ suṣṭhu niṣṭhīvanaṁ ca

"Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krishna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste."

In the spiritual world the devotees are completely free from sex desire. When you were a small child you had no sex desire. In the spiritual world you will be in an innocent child-like state of consciousness. In this connection Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 4.23.29 as follows:

"In the Vaikuntha planets there are husbands and wives, but there is no question of their giving birth to children or having sex life. In the Vaikuntha planets both husbands and wives are extraordinarily beautiful, and they are attracted to one another, but they do not enjoy sex life. Indeed, they consider sex not to be very relishable because both husband and wife are always absorbed in Krishna consciousness and in glorifying and chanting the glories of the Lord."

So if you will dive deeply into the process of awakening your Krishna consciousness and the Krishna consciousness of others, you will no longer be bothered by the blood-sucking mosquito of sex desire.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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