Sex life is regulated, not denied, to produce Krishna conscious children for a better world.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Hare Krishna Festival Address At Balboa Park Bowl — July 1, 1972, San Diego 720701AD-SAN DIEGO [50:47 Minutes] Address_720701AD-SAN DIEGO [kirtana] Prabhupāda: Where is my kartel? [sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] Is it working? [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. Devotees: All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
[devotees offer obeisances] [07:16] Prabhupāda: Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great movement known as Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. This Hare Kṛṣṇa movement was started five hundred years ago by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu in a, a place which is now known as Nadia. It is a district in West Bengal, about sixty miles north of Calcutta. Lord Caitanya appeared there about 485 years ago, and He took sannyāsa. Sannyāsa means renounced order of life.
According to Vedic civilization, at the end of one's life, one has to take sannyāsa, renounced order of life, no family connection. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, at very early age... He was only twenty-four years old, and He had at His home very nice, young wife and very affectionate mother, but still... [someone in crowd starts yelling] Guest (1): ... I don't believe that that's the truth there.
I don't believe that is the truth. Get out of here! Guest (2): Talk louder! Prabhupāda: What does he say? [chuckles] [devotees laugh nervously] Guest (1): I'm talking about sex... Devotee: Says he's talking about death. Girl: Why don't you get up here and say it? Viśvareta: Prabhupāda, he says he wants to have sex more than once a month. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Viśvareta: The man says he wants to have sex life more than once a month. Prabhupāda: No... He's creating disturbance.
[pause] So as this man is talking about sex, so this world's..., material world, is enchanted by sex. That is material world. Striya..., puṁsāṁ striya mithuni-bhāvam etad [SB 5.5.8]. This whole material world is existing on sex attraction.
Not only in the human society, in animal society also, this sex impulse is there. Birds, beasts, animal, human being, even demigods, they are attracted in this material world by sex impulse. The śāstra, or the Vedic literature, there is mention about this, that we are in this material world only for the sex impulse. First of all, we think of sex. A man also thinks.
A woman also thinks. And when they are united, that attraction becomes more and more complete. Then, in a gentlemanly way, when there is sex unity, then there is need of a nice apartment or house. Then there is need of land.