Women and Gender Roles
Should women join the military?
When women and men mix so freely, sexual assault, rape, etc., are bound to happen. The remedial measures of the demons such as sex education or therapy do nothing to curb that…
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Sexual Desire and Celibacy
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Plagued by sex desire? Remember Haridasa Thakura
Devotee (3): How can one rid oneself of sex desire if one continues to chant, continuously chant Hare Krsna, and is still being plagued by desire for sex? Prabhupada: If you chant…
Varnasrama-dharma
Varņāśrama-dharma for Overcoming Sex Desire
A few years after Srila Prabhupada's establishing of ISKCON, it became apparent that many of his disciples, despite having practiced devotional service for some time, would again fall away. Such is common…
Varnasrama-dharma
Devotees Need Varņāśrama-dharma
Although devotional service is transcendental, most devotees are not fully on the transcendental stage and therefore require to practice varņāśrama-dharma. Even great acäryas, who for their own sake do not need to…
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Punishment for Illicit Sex is Hell known as Taptasūrmi
A man or woman who indulges in sexual intercourse with an unworthy member of the opposite sex is punished after death by the assistants of Yamarāja in the hell known as Taptasūrmi.…
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The Perfect Society: Four Spiritual Classes
This chapter particularly describes the brahmacārī and the person in the vānaprastha stage, and it also gives a general description of the four āśramas — brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. In the previous chapter, the great saint Nārada Muni has described the varṇa institution…
Krishna and Bhakti
One’s Real Interest Lies In Returning Home, Back To Godhead
When the mind is polluted by fruitive activity, the living entity wants to be elevated from one material position to another. Generally, everyone is involved in working hard day and night to…
Krishna and Bhakti
Cutting the Knots of Material Attachment
Our attempts at happiness in the material world keep us bound to repeated suffering, but there is a way out. bhidyate hridaya-granthish chidyante sarva-samshayah kshiyante chasya karmani drishta evatmanishvare "Thus the knots…
Marriage and Family
Why so many divorce happened ?
Everyone is engaged in these material activities, and the basic principle of material activity is gṛhastha, family life. Family life, according to Vedic system, or anywhere, is responsible life to maintain the…
