Not having children

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Internet: "Jason Anthony Rapp" <rappjason (AT) rediffmail (DOT) com>

26-Apr-04 21:03 -0700 (04:03)

Mahat-tattva (das) [13618]

Comment: Text 5822 by Mahat-tattva (das)

Not having children

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 Mahat-tattva (das) wrote :

>Why is the marriage without children considered abominable?

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Dear Mahat tattva prabhu, please accept my obeisances,

 

In the book by Satsvarupa Maharaja where he writes commentaries to the

Chanakya

Slokas that Srila Prabhupada used.

 

In ch 23 of that book, Bhag. 6.13.31 purport is quoted in which Prabhupada

writes;

"[in the Vedic culture] The purpose of marrying is to beget a son, because

a

son is necessary to deliver his father and forefathers from any hellish

conditional lives in which they may be...Such help rendered to forefathers

is a

family tradition and those who are not in devotional life are required to

perform such rituals."

 

Then Satsvarupa Maharaja writes:

"Prabhupada did not apply this to devotees.....When Srila Prabhupada

performed

my marriage in 1968, I wrote to him asking how to go about having children.

He

told me that I shouldn't think I had to have sex just because I was married.

He

said that if we could avoid sex, that would be better. Later, I wrote him

again

and asked whether we could have children. My wife was sickly, so Prabhupada

told me that it would be better we avoided it. He said better to become

children ourselves than have our own children. "You become children of Krsna

directly"(letter Oct. 9. 1968).

 

"He didn't indicate that if we didn't have children, we should cancel our

marriage, but he has taught that sex life without children is a result of

degredation. Such a marriage is void. This is not the same as a couple

staying

together to perform devotional service, despite the fact that they don't

want

or cannot have children."

 

"As with so many of these slokas, there is a transcendendal aspect which

Chanakya doesn't address."

 

 

I have heard also that Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja, who himself had seven

children, said some words to the effect that an advantage in having a

marriage

with children is that one gets a nice beating from the material energy from

which comes plenty of impetus to surrender to the all merciful Lord Krsna!

 

Your servant,

bh Jason

 

 

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 Mahat-tattva (das) wrote :

>Why is the marriage without children considered abominable?

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