This is illusion.

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Why is the attraction between male and female so powerful?

What is the essence of this attraction?

And why does the Vedic literature call it illusion?

(an excerpt from a lecture by Srila Prabhupada)

 

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The Srimad-Bhagavatam explains that this illusion develops because we are in

the kingdom of maya, Krsna's illusory potency, and she is attracting us.

What is that attractive force? For man that attractive force is woman; and

for woman, man. The whole world is going on because of this sex attraction.

Not only in human society but also in dog society, cat society, hog society,

bird society -- everywhere the female is attractive for the male, and the

male is attractive for the female. This is illusion.

 

To get out of this illusion, we must be trained in how to counteract sex

attraction. That is why from a young age, brahmacarya [celibacy] training is

given so that one can know that a woman's body is not actually attractive.

What is attractive about it? It is simply made of flesh and blood.

Similarly, if a woman analyzes a man's body, what is there to be attracted

to? Flesh and blood? Is flesh and blood very attractive?

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