sexual relationship with God

[Guest guest]

In unalloyed love of Godhead we have to engage our senses -- sarvendriya,

all the senses. This means that sex is also to be engaged in Krsna

consciousness. The conception of God as a father or mother does not allow

the engagement of one's sex in the service of the Lord because there is no

sexual relationship with the father and mother. But in the conception of God

as a lover, there is sexual engagement also. Therefore, Caitanya Mahaprabhu

gave the most perfect information of our engagement with the Supreme Lord.

In other religious conceptions of life, God is at the utmost taken as the

father or mother. Many worshipers in India take goddess Kali to be the

representation of God. Of course, that is not sanctioned, but the belief is

there, and also in the Christian religion the conception of God is as a

father. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu informs us that one can even have sexual

engagement with the Lord. This information is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's unique

contribution. In this material world, sexual engagement is considered to be

the highest engagement, the greatest pleasure, although it exists only in a

perverted form. No one, however, has conceived that there can be sexual

engagement in the spiritual world. There is not a single instance of such

theology anywhere in the entire world. This information is given for the

first time by Caitanya Mahaprabhu: one can have the Supreme Personality of

Godhead as one's husband, as one's lover. This is possible in the worship of

Radha and Krsna, but no one, especially the impersonalists, can understand

Radha-Krsna. The impersonalists have no idea; they cannot even conceive that

God has form. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that not only does God have form,

but He has sex life also. This is the highest contribution of Caitanya

Mahaprabhu.

 

from SSR 8b: The Highest Love