seventy-five percent chance that you will not go back to Godhead

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The next day Cidananda dasa accompanied me to see Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada

asked if I had yet decided about remaining a brahmacari. "Yes, I have discussed

it with some of the other brahmacaris, and I don't think I will get married."

"Very good! Because marriage means seventy-five percent chance that you will

not go back to Godhead." Prabhupada then began to describe the advantages of

celibacy. By avoiding sex life one's intelligence becomes stronger, the memory

sharper, and one increases one's life-span. A brahmacari avoids so much

unnecessary botheration due to having to maintain a wife and children.

Attraction for the opposite sex is the root cause of material existence. In his

Bhagavad-gita purports Prabhupada explains, "The highest pleasure in terms of

matter is sex pleasure. The whole world is moving under its spell, and the

materialist cannot work at all without this motivation. But a person engaged m

Krsna consciousness can work with greater vigor without sex pleasure, which he

avoids. That is the test in spiritual life. Spiritual realization and sex

pleasure go ill together." While the bhakti process permits controlled sex

through responsible householder life, it is better if one can avoid the problem

altogether.

 

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