Male-female relationship in Vaikuntha

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> Please accept my humble obeisances.

>

> It is understood that the attraction between the opposite sex is an

> imitation of Krishna as purusha and His prakrti, and thus it is to

> be given up since we are actually all prakrti.

>

> Yet in Vaikuntha there are husbands and wives, and Srila Prabhupada

> also describes that they are attracted to each other and enjoy that

> relationship, but there is no sex -- or it may even happen. How are

> they attracted to each other if the sex principle is not there? And

> if sex is there to a small degree then does that not mean that there

> is a tinge of desire to imitate Krishna?

 

In Vaikuntha, there is relationship, as there also is in Goloka.

Having a relationship with others does not necessarily mean a sexual

relationship. For example, there are relationships between men or

between women that have no sexual connotations. The husbands and

wives in Vaikuntha relate with each other with Krsna or Visnu as the

center of their lives. It is not that the center of their lives is

each other. This is the main difference. In the material world, when

we speak of conjugal relationships, we are speaking of the love that

generates between male and female and that is the central point of

their existence. But in Vaikuntha, although there is relation between

male and female, that is not the central point, rather, it is only

accepted because it is the arrangement of the Lord that the Vaikuntha

people have consorts. What do they do together? They serve the Lord

together, they talk about the Lord together, they are eager to meet

the Lord while together and so on. Thus their relationship is only in

connection with the Lord and nothing else. Selfish relations are not

possible in Vaikuntha.