Always Remain Humble

If you are serious about experiencing the unlimited nectar found in Krishna's name, you have to always remain in a humble state of mind thinking yourself to be lower than the straw in the street. If you are proud of your so-called greatness, the holy name will not be nectarean for you. It will instead taste like poison. So do yourself the greatest of all favors: Always remain humble.

Srila Prabhupada Humbly Bows Before Krishna

Srila Prabhupada Humbly Bows Before Krishna

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Question: Illicit Sex With One's Wife is Sex in Mode of Goodness?

Dear Gurudeva,

I heard a lecture given in Mayapur by a Prabhupada disciple. He said that having sex with one's wife for procreation as per Srila Prabhupada's instructions is transcendental, in other words beyond the modes of material nature. This I know. But then he said that having sex with one's wife outside of regulative principles is in the mode of goodness because even though illicit it is with one's wife.

Is this correct?

Your disciple

Answer: It's In the Mode of Ignorance

Prabhupada instructs that householders who want to have children may have sex only once in month just after the woman's menstrual cycle and after both the husband and wife have chanted 50 rounds of Hare Krishna japa mala. Such sex is divine and will attract saintly children to take birth to such a pure hearted couple. Householders who do not want to have children are strictly prohibited from having sex, including sex with contraceptives.

Regarding sex with one's wife that is not according to these principles, Srila Prabhupada explains as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 3.14.33:

“Sex life with one's wife is equal to prostitution if the regulations are not properly followed.”

Since prostitution is in the mode of ignorance, such unauthorized sex is in the mode of ignorance, not the mode of goodness. Such illicit sex degrades the consciousness of those who indulge in it and attracts children who are not of the highest caliber and is thus strictly avoided by those who are intelligent.

Any devotee, Prabhupada disciple or otherwise, who preaches something like this, which is opposed to Srila Prabhupada's teachings, should not be allowed to give class. Otherwise the devotees who hear his class will be misguided and diverted from achieving pure love of God.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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