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Sex Desire

Sex Desire. The Gauòéya Vaiñëava Understanding. From the teachings of His Divine Grace A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda. Part 1: The Original Spiritual Bliss Part 2: Love into Lust Part 3: Back again: Lust into Love

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Sex Desire

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  1. Sex Desire The GauòéyaVaiñëava Understanding

  2. From the teachings of • His Divine Grace • A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda

  3. Part 1: The Original Spiritual Bliss • Part 2: Love into Lust • Part 3: Back again: Lust into Love • Part 4: Back again: Dealing with lust while one is gradually in the real cure: two ways

  4. The Original Spiritual Bliss

  5. ädi-rasa, the reality • Sex life is not unreal. Its reality is experienced in the spiritual world. The material sex life is but a perverted reflection of the original fact. • (purport SB 1.1.1)

  6. Kåñëa is the real Cupid • In the spiritual realm of Våndävana, Kåñëa is the spiritual, ever-fresh Cupid • (CC Madhya 8.138) • Käma-deva, Puñpa-bäëa • and Anaìga

  7. In the material world, if one is sexually inclined and enjoys sex life, he enjoys something temporary. His enjoyment vanishes after a few minutes. However, in the spiritual world the same enjoyment may be there, but it never vanishes. It is continuously enjoyed. In the spiritual world such sex pleasure appears to the enjoyer to be more and more relishable with each new feature. In the material world, however, sex enjoyment becomes distasteful after a few minutes only, and it is never permanent. Because Kåñëa appears very much sexually inclined, He is called the new Cupid in the spiritual world. There is no material inebriety in such desire, however. • (purport CC Madhya 8.138)

  8. Kåñëa and the jévas both desire pleasure • The desire for enjoyment is present both in Kåñëa and in His parts and parcels, the living entities. In the spiritual world, such desires are also spiritual • (purport CC Madhya 8.138)

  9. Kåñëa and the jévas both desire pleasure • The living entity is by nature full of an enjoying spirit, as stated in the Vedänta-sütra (1.1.12): änanda-mayo ’bhyäsät. • (purport CC Ädi 14.29)

  10. Sexual feelings in spiritual bodies • When males and females touch each other's bodies, their lusty desires naturally awaken. It appears from this verse that there are similar sensations in spiritual bodies… All sensations originally exist in the spiritual body. ..ÇrélaViçvanäthaCakravartéÖhäkura has commented in this connection that the word ädi means ädi-rasa, the original lusty feeling, which is born from the Supreme. However, spiritual lust and material lust are as completely different as gold and iron. • (purport SB 5.25.5)

  11. THEREFORE, “We cannot kill desires”(purport SB 4.22.30) • They say that "You become desireless." No, that is not possible. How can I...? If I become desireless, I become dead. So long I am living entity, I must desire. I cannot check it. • (lecture Çrémad-Bhägavatam 3.26.27 • -- Bombay, January 4, 1975) butterfly or stone?

  12. We cannot kill sexual desire because it is originally a spiritual urge • Actually, lust and the sex urge are there in spiritual life, but when the spirit soul is embodied in material elements, that spiritual urge is expressed through the material body and is therefore pervertedly reflected. One who actually becomes conversant with the science of Kåñëa consciousness can understand that his material desire for sex is abominable whereas spiritual sex is desirable. • (TLC 31: The Supreme Perfection) Kåñëa, the real cupid

  13. Results of trying to kill sexuality • Anger [käma-anujena—the younger brother of lust (anger) (SB 3.15.31)] • A hard heart—the hearts of those who are engaged in severe austerities and penances do not become very easily softened. • (NOD 31) • Falldown—If one wants to artificially stop the activities of the senses, his attempt • will be a failure. (purport SB 3.27.5)

  14. ädi-rasa • The Personality of Godhead enjoys eternally a bliss of His own potency, which is called the hlädiné potency. • (purport SB 3.1.31)

  15. The pleasure potency: ädi-rasa • Rädhä, resembles Kåñëa’s own spiritual figure and embodies the ecstatic potency hlädiné • (Br Sam 5.37) • She is the personified hlädiné-çakti (the pleasure-giving energy of the Lord’s internal potency), and therefore She is the only source of enjoyment for ÇréKåñëa. • (purport CC Ädi 4.71)

  16. How jévas experience the ädi-rasa • The pleasure relished by Kåñëa’s pure devotees is also manifested by His pleasure potency. • (CC Madhya 8.158) • That hlädiné energy gives Kåñëa pleasure and nourishes His devotees. • (CC Ädi 4.60)

  17. How jévas experience the ädi-rasa • Devotees, as soon as they see smiling Kåñëa, pleasing Kåñëa, they become pleased. They become pleased by seeing Kåñëa pleased. They do not want to be pleased independently. That is not devotee. Devotee's pleasure is seeing Kåñëa is pleased. Kåñëa is also pleased when He sees the devotees are pleased. (lecture The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 30, 1973)

  18. How jévas experience the ädi-rasa • ‎“Kåñëa consciousness movement is for approaching Rädhä-Kåñëa, to be associated with the Supreme Lord in His sublime pleasure dance. That is the aim of Kåñëa consciousness.” • (lecture Los Angeles 21, 1968)

  19. How jévas experience the ädi-rasa • When you simply try to please Kåñëa, that is spiritual pleasure. • (PQPA 5: Becoming Pure)

  20. How jévas experience the ädi-rasa • Please the Lord, or in other words, unite the Lord with His energy of pleasure

  21. How jévas experience the ädi-rasaUnite Rädhä and Kåñëa. • As I go to draw water from the Yamunä, I shall cherish knowing the confidential mellows that unite the divine pair Rädhä and Kåñëa. • (BhaktivinodaÖhäkura, Çaraëägati)

  22. How jévas experience the ädi-rasaUnite Lakñmé & Näräyaëa • Engage Lakñmé in the service of Lord Näräyaëa and be happy. • (purport SB 1.5.32)

  23. How jévas experience the ädi-rasaUnite Sétä and Räma • Hanumän fought for Lord Rämacandra. He did not fight for himself, not for his personal interest. The interest was how to get out Sétäjé from the hands of Rävaëa, and let her sit down on the side • of Rämacandra. This is the • policy of Hanumän, devotees. • (lecture Bhagavad-gétä 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973)

  24. Love into Lust

  25. Material Sexual Desire: LustTry to enjoy the pleasure energy separately from the Lord • Rävaëa’s policy is "Take away Sétä from the clutches of Räma and enjoy it." This is Rävaëa policy. And the Hanumän • policy is: "Take out Sétä from the • hands of Rävaëa and get her • seated by the side of Räma." • The same Sétä. • (lecture Bhagavad-gétä 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973)

  26. Material Sexual Desire: Lust • Sex life in the mundane world is the root-cause of being conditioned by the shackles of illusion • (purport SB 2.4.20)

  27. Material Sexual Desire: Lust • The material Cupid increases the attraction of the external flesh and body, but the spiritual Cupid increases the attraction the Supersoul exerts upon the individual soul. Actually, lust and the sex urge are there in spiritual life, but when the spirit soul is embodied in material elements, that spiritual urge is expressed through the material body and is therefore pervertedly reflected. One who actually becomes conversant with the science of Kåñëa consciousness can understand that his material desire for sex is abominable whereas spiritual sex is desirable. • (TLC 31: The Supreme Perfection)

  28. Gross form of mental desires • The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. • He thus enjoys a particular • set of sense objects. • (Bg 15.9)

  29. Spiritual and Material Cupid • “When the women saw Pradyumna, dressed in yellowish garments, with very long arms, curling hair, beautiful reddish eyes, a smiling face, jewelry and ornaments, they at first could not recognize him as a personality different from Kåñëa…..

  30. Spiritual and Material Cupid • “Pradyumna’s personal appearance was exactly like Kåñëa’s, and he was factually Cupid himself. …Pradyumna’s bodily characteristics were so similar to Kåñëa’s that he was mistaken for Kåñëa even by his mother.” Kämadeva & Rati

  31. Back again: Lust into Love The Real Cure

  32. Turn our desires to pleasing Kåñëa • The material desire for sense enjoyment is the cause of our falldown in this material world… However, if we turn our desires toward the transcendental loving service of the Lord, our desires become purified. We cannot kill desires. We have to purify them of different designations. ..if our desires are applied to the service of the Lord, they become purified, and thus we become immediately freed from material contamination. • (purport SB 4.22.30)

  33. Turn our desires to pleasing Kåñëa • Kämaùkåñëa-karmärpaëe. ..at the present moment, we are desiring how to become happy in this material world…. This is käma. So this brain taxation, if you engage in Kåñëa's service—how to spread Kåñëa consciousness, how to convince people about Kåñëa, how to take them to the Kåñëa's desire, sarva-dharmänparityajya [Bg. 18.66] • (lecture Çrémad-Bhägavatam 3.26.27 -- Bombay, January 4, 1975)

  34. Absorbed in the Real • mämanusmara • yudhya ca • (Bg 8.7) • mayyäsakta-manäù • (Bg 7.1)

  35. Get the Real Experience • Unless we have got the taste for the better thing, the inferior things we cannot give up. • (lecture Çrémad-Bhägavatam 7.6.11-13 -- New Vrindaban, June 27, 1976) • pratyakñävagamaàdharmyaà • su-sukhaàkartumavyayam • (Bg 9.2)

  36. But, it’s gradual! • gradually and progressively they can advance to the abode of the Personality of Godhead. • (purport SB 3.27.28-29) • Everyone has to cleanse his heart by a gradual process, not abruptly. • (purport Bg 3.35)

  37. But, it’s gradual! • What will we do with the material part of our sexuality while we are gradually walking the path of transforming the totality of our desires back into the spiritual?

  38. Lust Back into Love:Two Ways of Using Material Sexual Desire in Devotional Service While in the Gradual Process of Awakening the Reality

  39. Does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing? • (SB 1.5.33)

  40. This is the essence of Kåñëa consciousness movement …. The milk is the cause of your dysentery, but the same milk, when it is medically treated, can cure it. • (lecture Çrémad-Bhägavatam 1.5.33 -- Våndävana, August 14, 1974)

  41. Kåñëa’s Kindness • SB 2.6.8: From the Lord's genitals originate water, semen, generatives, rains, and the procreators. His genitals are the cause of a pleasure that counteracts the distress of begetting. • Purport: This pleasure-giving substance is not false because it originates from the transcendental body of the Lord. In other words, the pleasure-giving substance is a reality

  42. Kåñëa’s Intelligence • Linking bodily sex to reproduction • Viçvämitra Muni, he was such a great yogi that he used to create human being from trees. • (lectures Bhagavad-gétä 7.3 -- Våndävana, October 31, 1973)

  43. Sex, Dharma, and Sacrifice • SexChildren Responsibility yajïa • If the link between sex and reproduction is kept intact, then either way of dealing with material sexuality becomes a sacrifice, either— • “sacrifice in celibacy [or] in household life” • (purport Bg 4.42)

  44. What is the Benefit of Sacrifice? • sarva-gataàbrahma • nityaàyajïepratiñöhitam • the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice • (Bg 3.15)

  45. Butter and Fire in Sacrifice • I am the butter and the fire and the offering • (Bg 9.16)

  46. Butter and Fire in Sacrifice • brahmärpaëaàbrahmahavir • brahmägnaubrahmaëähutam • brahmaivatenagantavyaà • brahma-karma-samädhinä • brahma—spiritual in nature; arpaëam—contribution; brahma—the Supreme; haviù—butter; brahma—spiritual; agnau—in the fire of consummation; brahmaëä—by the spirit soul; hutam—offered; brahma—spiritual kingdom; eva—certainly; tena—by him; gantavyam—to be reached; brahma—spiritual; karma—in activities; samädhinä—by complete absorption • (Bg 4.24)

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