Regulated sex within dharma purifies consciousness; prohibition alone fails without positive devotional engagement.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with African Intelligentsia — September 24, 1971, Nairobi 710924R1-NAIROBI [84:36 Minutes] Conv_710924R1-NAIROBI Guest: Is there any necessity of being seated in the position we are now here? That must be a simple question for them, if one doesn't know how to act, because… Prabhupāda: Is there necessity…? Śyāmasundara: To be…, as we sitting in this manner.
Prabhupāda: No, no, no, no. Śyāmasundara: To be situated [indistinct].
Prabhupāda: Sit in certain posture? Śyāmasundara: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: There is necessity to sit down in a certain posture? You ask like this?
Prabhupāda: So… Guest: So there's no rules governing that?
Prabhupāda: No. You sit like a gentleman, that's all. Guest: I see. When we are going to live today in the present world, we are having people who are having… I mean, we, we are told adultery is bad. Isn't it? Śyāmasundara: Adultery? Guest: That for me, adultery. Śyāmasundara: Adultery. Prabhupāda: Yes.
Adultery is... Brahmānanda: Adultery—is that sex out of marriage? Guest: Yes. Prabhupāda: Yes. Guest: And we are also told by…, other people mention from the world that you should never divorce except on the account of adultery. Those are two questions. Third question is the present birth control that is being practiced, if it is good—to practice birth control as far as the Kṛṣṇa society is concerned. Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa society prohibits illicit sex. Illicit sex. Guest: Illicit sex.