You Already Have Pure Love of God Within You

Becoming Krishna conscious is not an artificial imposition on the mind. It is the awakening of the original, natural energy that you have within you at this very minute. In this regard it is stated in the Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya Lila, Chapter 22, Text 107:

nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema ‘sādhya’ kabhu naya
śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya

“Pure love for Kṛṣṇa is eternally established in the hearts of the living entities. It is not something to be gained from another source. When the heart is purified by hearing and chanting, this love naturally awakens."

So take full advantage of our instructions to revive your original, transcendental identity.

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Request: Bless Me to Become Sinless

I sincerely regret to inform you that I have I found myself helplessly masturbating while watching the explicit stuff. Kindly bless me so that the propensity to commit this sin vanishes from my consciousness forever!

Name withheld for confidentiality

Answer: Relish the Higher Taste

My Dear Student,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

That you have realized it is wrong to masturbate and have confessed means that you in the proper position to conquer it.

Sex pleasure is the greatest of all material pleasures. But it pales into insignificance when compared with the pleasure of awakening love of Krishna within one's heart. It is not wrong for you to hanker after the greatest pleasure. Now you simply have to remember that masturbation is not it. The greatest pleasure is to awaken your Krishna consciousness, which is an unlimited ever-increasing thrill going on 24 hours a day.

If you will withhold your semen, it will rise to your brain where it will make your brain more powerful for spiritual understanding, and it will increase your power of memory. Withholding your semen also increases your body's resistance against disease, old age, and death.

An intelligent person therefore does not pass semen unless he is trying to produce a Krishna conscious child in the womb of his wife.

So there is no sense in punishing yourself by the so-called pleasure of masturbation. It is millions and billions of times better to award yourself by chanting Hare Krishna and awakening your original divine consciousness.

Whenever your mind becomes disturbed by the desire for masturbation, here is mantra by the great Vaisnava acharya Yamunacharya which will protect you.

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 my mind has been engaged in the service of the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and I have been enjoying an ever new transcendental humor, whenever I think of sex life with a woman, my face at once turns from it, and I spit at the thought."

Now you should become a first class spitter and chanter and never be carried away ever again by masturbation.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in a recovered mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Devotees Relish the Higher Taste
of Chanting Hare Krishna

Sankarshan Das Adhikari is one of the spiritual masters of the worldwide Hare Krishna Movement. He has dedicated the last 50 years of his life for bringing a spiritual revolution to planet earth by spreading the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna all over the world. He is based in Austin, Texas and when there is no pandemic regularly travels all over the world teaching his audiences how to attain Krishna consciousness, the highest stage of spiritual awakening. He is available for media interviews and to speak to groups and organizations either in person or via the internet.