Natural tendencies require regulation, not repression; Krishna consciousness naturally transcends all psychological conflicts.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śyāmasundara: Today we are discussing the philosopher and psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Śyāmasundara: His thesis was that certain unconscious states must be repressed by a special mental mechanism which serves as a defense for the ego against painful or fragmental memories, emotions and desires.
Prabhupāda: Hm. That is our brahmacr system.
Prabhupāda: Brahmacr system. The psychology is that everyone has got sex
appetite, everyone has got tendency for intoxication and everyone has got a tendency for meat-eating. loke vyavymia-madya-sev nity hi jantor na hi tatra codan [SB 11.5.11] That these tendencies are already there. So when there is injunction in the stra that one can have sex intercourse by marriage, by legal sex. We are prohibiting illicit sex but we are not prohibiting, I mean to say--legal sex. So just like in the Bhagavad-gt [Bg 7.11] also it is said that. Ka says, dharmviruddho' kmo 'smi, kma: sex indulgence which is not against religious principles. That is, "I am". SSo religious principle means regulated sex life. People have got a livid tendency... Just like those who are not regulated by the Vedic injunctions they are also having sex. So what is the meaning of this legal sex? The legal sex means it is restriction, that is it. Restriction. Where there is no such injunction. Just like in Western countries, they are having sex without any, I mean to say-restrictions. But according to Vedic system, restriction. Just like eating meat, that is also restricted. You cannot eat meat from the slaughterhouse, but the injunction is that you can take a goat and in. In the presence of goddess Kali you can offer it, and then you can eat. And in the stras it is called vt msa. Vt msa means meat which is not sacrificed. There are so many rules and regulations. Similarly, drinking also there is injunction. Ah Ca by worshiping Ca you can drink. So when stra deals with this meat-eating, drinking and sex, which is already there... Psychologically everyone has got this tendency. Then why it is mentioned in the stras in this way? The whole thing is to restrict. Just like ordinarily in the state drinking liquor is also controlled by the excise department of the government. Government opens drinking shop, the price is enhanced. I know because I was dealing in rectified spirit, so because we are
preparing medicine we are getting opium and this rectified spirits, gaja, very cheap rate. Very cheap rate. One smuggler came to me that, "You give me your license, you take one thousand rupees, sitting. I will manage." [laughs] So I told him that when I would be arrested, because after all will be arrested, then I'll be arrested and then the government will ask me that, "We have given you the license as a respectable gentleman, and you are doing this," then what shall I reply? So this restriction is that liquor... Rectified; every wine is made from rectified spirits, all brandy, whiskey, everything; I know all the formulas, how to make them. You see? And the government, the cost price of the rectified spirits is about Rs. 1,59 paise per gallon, and the government is selling at 60 rupees. For us it was five rupees, because we were manufacturers. So in this way, so why this 60 rupees? Restriction. Because unless government takes up this matter in the hands, people will distill... It is not very difficult. Distilling wine is valent there are many illicit distillers also. Excise is the duty of the excise department to arrest them. So my point is that why government is increasing this price? So that restricting, that people may not pay so much price, they may not drink it. When government opens liquor shop, it does not mean that you, all of you become a drunkard. It is not an advertisement. Similarly, when stra gives the permission that, "You can have sex life by marriage," or "You can eat meat by offering the goat before the goddess Kl," or "You can drink also by offering worship to Ca," it is restriction. Because nobody can worship Ca daily. Nobody can worship Kl daily. There is also fixed date... kl-pj can be performed on amvasy. The amvasy comes once in a month. That means restricted--one can eat meat once in a month. But the restriction is not there for eating rice, dl, ghee or fruit or milk. There is no such restriction. But as whenever there is a question of this liquor, meat-eating and sex, immediately there is stra injunction that, "You can do this under certain conditions." That means the whole idea is to restrict. That is, psychology is already there, but strata because they know if people become implicated with all these
things nonsense thing. Then his duration of materialistic way of life will increase, and he will have to accept material body birth after birth. So by restriction, restriction gradually just like we are restricting all these things, gradually the Western students they are coming to the point to become a pure devotee.