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6 BRAHMACARYA IN KÅÑËA CONSCIOUSNESS

only make slow advancement over many lifetimes? Why is it that
neophyte devotees, despite chanting and praying to God, are still
prone to fall down at any time? It is because of sex desire. The
perverted expression of ädi-rasa known as mundane sex desire is
the main obstacle to spiritual progress.

MUNDANE SEX DESIRES

The conditioned soul in the material world is in a state of
madness. Nünaà pramattaù kurute vikarma. 22 Forgetting his
eternal, blissful relationship with Kåñëa, he is suffering life after
life, being kicked and spat upon by mäyä. But he is smiling, taking
it as enjoyment. Why? Because he is charmed by the glitter of false
happiness, beginning with sex pleasure. Sex desire is the main
symptom of insanity exhibited by the conditioned soul.
Such foolish beings are always intrigued and charmed by the
opposite sex. With the onset of puberty, male youths, especially
those who have not been trained otherwise, become overwhelmed
by sexual desires. They take every opportunity to mingle with and
enter into relationships with the opposite sex. Although they get
limited opportunities to do so, their consciousness is always
saturated with thoughts of touching the bodies of the opposite sex,
seeing their naked forms, and engaging in sexual intercourse. They
say “love,” but they have only lust.
Even the more sober members of society who are not
cultivating gross sexual lust as their main business in life may be
captivated by fantasies of enjoying the body of a sexual partner, for
the thought of sex is never far away from the mind of a conditioned
soul.
But there is nothing intrinsically beautiful about any material
body. Even the bodies of beauty queens are simply bags of skin
filled with foul-smelling, revolting substances. Blood, mucous, bile,
stool, and urine combined as muscles, bones, fat, liver, heart, and
intestines—that is what they are having sex with! Sexual happiness
is the happiness of uniting the two urine-producing parts. Yet by
the mighty power of illusion, an arrangement of skin and flesh