Encouraging celibacy - interesting comment on the subject...

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Prabhupäda: Oh, that is called eunuch. By nature, neither man, neither

woman.

Hayagréva: Oh, this is also called asexual, that is to say no sex.

Prabhupäda: No sex.

Hayagréva: Hermaphroditic means they have the physical features of both man

and woman.

Prabhupäda: Oh. At the same time?

Hayagréva: At the same time.

Prabhupäda: I do not exactly. But such people they have their own society

and their means of living is that whenever there is some good occasion, a

marriage or childbirth, like that, so they go there and pray God that this

child may be very long living. In this way they make some prayer and get

some...

 

 

============ REF. Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play Between Çréla Prabhupäda

and Hayagréva -- April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco

 

 

Çréla Viçvanätha Cakravarté has defined the word bhaöäù as “female guards,”

whereas Jéva Gosvämé defines it as “eunuchs and others.” Grammatically, the

word can function both ways.

 

============ REF. SB 10.62.25-26

 

 

 

As there are professional singers, dancers and reciters of prayers in the

heavenly planets, so in India still there are professional dancers, blessers

and singers, all of whom assemble together during householder ceremonies,

especially marriages and birth ceremonies. These professional men earn their

livelihood by taking charity on such occasions from the homes of the Hindus.

Eunuchs also take advantage of such ceremonies to receive charity. That is

their means of livelihood. Such men never become servants or engage

themselves in agriculture or business occupations; they simply take charity

from neighborhood friends to maintain themselves peacefully. The bhäöas are

a class of brähmaëas who go to such ceremonies to offer blessings by

composing poems with references to the Vedic scriptures.

 

============ REF. Ädi 13.106