The Four Inevitabilities of Material Life

Four miseries of material existence

0:00Prabhupāda: These four things, namely birth, death, old age and disease, will accompany you.

Escaping the cycle of rebirth

0:10Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that mad-dhāma gatvā punar janma na vidyate [Bg 8.16]

0:17From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kuntī, never takes birth again.

Male and female in spiritual sky

0:22"If you reach My abode in the spiritual sky, then you'll have no more birth." So this male-female question is everywhere.

Absence of sex in spiritual world

0:42The only difference is that in spiritual world there is no need of sex life, or there is no impelling sex life, although there is attraction between man and woman.

Spiritual attraction of Radha and Krishna

0:59That is... Just like Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. There is attraction of Rādhā for Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa for Rādhā, but there is no sex life.

Distinguishing spiritual and material relationships

1:14So male-female, conception of male-female as we have got here, there is concomitant factor of sex life, but that should not be exported to the spiritual world, that idea.

1:33There is also male-female, but there is no sex life attraction. That's all right. Yes?

Defining sambandha abhidheya and prayojana

1:58Devotee: Swāmījī, I read in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the purport to the [indistinct] ...ślokas... And I saw in another book about sambandha, abhidheya, [indistinct]. Could you explain that? [break]

2:16Prabhupāda: That is called prayojana. Everyone enters into contact, or agreement, with another.

Purpose of entering into agreements

2:40What is the idea? To achieve some profit. To get some profit. Similarly, we have got... [break] [end]