RE: Do not marry! [Repetition is required in Kali-yuga]

[Guest guest]

>Raghunatha Bhattacarya had become a greatly advanced devotee while still

>unmarried. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu could see this, and therefore He advised

>him not to begin the process of material sense gratification.

 

This is a crucial point in this and that is why Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

advised him not to marry, I hope we don't make mistakes in generalizing this

statement and mention to whoever we meet, do not get married.

 

Hare Krsna,

 

Ys Mrugesh

 

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> COM: Nayana-ranjana (das) (BBT Bombay -

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> Reply Nayana-ranjana (AT) bbt (DOT) se;Brahmacarya (AT) bbt (DOT) se

> Wednesday, September 22, 1999 1:04 PM

> mrugesh_shroff (AT) merck (DOT) com

> Do not marry! [Repetition is required in Kali-yuga]

>

> [Text 2647197 from COM]

>

> asta-masa rahi' prabhu bhatte vidaya dila

> `vivaha na kariha' bali' nisedha karila

>

> TRANSLATION

> After eight months, when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu bade farewell to

> Raghunatha

> Bhatta, the Lord flatly forbade him to marry. "Do not marry," the Lord

> said.

>

> PURPORT

>

> Raghunatha Bhattacarya had become a greatly advanced devotee while still

> unmarried. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu could see this, and therefore He

> advised

> him not to begin the process of material sense gratification. Marriage is

> a

> concession for people who are unable to control their senses. Raghunatha,

> however, being an advanced devotee of Krsna, naturally had no desire for

> sense gratification. Therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised him not to

> enter the bondage of marriage. GENERALLY A PERSON CANNOT MAKE MUCH

> ADVANCEMENT IN SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS IF HE IS MARRIED. HE BECOMES

> ATTACHED

> TO HIS FAMILY AND IS PRONE TO SENSE GRATIFICATION. THUS HIS SPIRITUAL

> ADVANCEMENT IS VERY SLOW OR ALMOST NIL.

>

> Antya 13.113

>

[Guest guest]

>

> This is a crucial point in this and that is why Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

> advised him not to marry, I hope we don't make mistakes in generalizing

> this statement and mention to whoever we meet, do not get married.

 

But also we need not preach to anyone to get married because the natural

tendency is to jump into the deep dark well of family life anyway.

 

"As explained by Prahlada Maharaja (hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam), one

should not remain always engaged in the responsibilities of family life

because family life without Krsna consciousness is just like a blind well.

Alone in a field, if one falls into a blind well and no one is there to save

him, he may cry for years, and no one will see or hear where the crying is

coming from. Death is sure. Similarly, those who are forgetful of their

eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord are in the blind well of family

life; their position is very ominous. Prahlada Maharaja advised that one

should give up this well somehow or other and take to Krsna consciousness

and thus be freed from material entanglement, which is full of anxieties."

 

SB 3.24.41 purp.