Prabhupāda: We have got our process. We . . .
Guest (2): A healing process?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Guest (2): A healing process? Healing.
Prabhupāda: Healing. Yes it is healing process. It is healing process, just like you also heal by some psycho-theist process similarly we also heal by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness process.
Guest: Could you say a bit about that process?
Prabhupāda: Yes this chanting Hare Krishna, mantra. Just like there is a process of snakebite, have you seen a snake charmer? In India we have got still, if one is bitten by a snake he is unconscious by chanting the mantra you will gradually come to consciousness.
So this is material, similarly we are spirit soul we are now—everyone of us—either psychologically, mentally or bodily, we are all diseased, all diseased. So by this chanting process he comes to his consciousness and all this material, bodily mental intellectual diseases are cured.
Guest (2): It would seem that someone would have to be on a certain mind for that to be of assistance.
Prabhupāda: No, we create that situation, simply by chanting. We are chanting and he joins in chanting, all our students do that. Then he becomes cured, mentally intellectually and bodily.
Guest (2): See we meet people who would not do that, they seek healing from other individuals more than from themselves and what they can bring up by concentration by chanting. They seek assistance more from outside than from within by chanting and they are not used to looking within or delving within by chanting.
Prabhupāda: No we have got so many students and simply by chanting they are cured. Mental, bodily and intellectually, we have so many students, you can talk any one of them.
Guest: After going through the process to get their Kṛṣṇa consciousness then would the students stay in the movement as far as like at the temple, in the temple or would they go out into the community and . . . and do regular jobs and that type of thing?
Prabhupāda: Yes, there are many professions, he is . . . he is a Dr. of chemistry. He is doing his job but he is a Kṛṣṇa conscious and there is many professors, many workers. It is not that one has to live in the temple, no. He can live outside. But he keeps his Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But within the society it is easier because association has got some influence.
Guest: It's easier to stay with the discipline.
Prabhupāda: Ah, yes.
Guest (2): Do you teach ah, control over the body?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest (2): In relation over the body.
Prabhupāda: Yes, as we say no meat eating, no intoxicants, no illicit sex, no gambling, there are so many no's. And so many yes so they have to do that. Do's and do not's, that is control. Do this and do not do this, so this is control.
Guest (2): You mentioned . . .
Prabhupāda: The . . . our students do not even smoke, do not drink tea coffee nothing. They do not go to cinema, no club, no restaurant.
Guest: No what?
Prabhupāda: Restaurant. We have no such expenditure and probably no doctors bill. So at least we save so much expenditure.
Guest (2): You said: "no illicit sex," what is permissible sex?
Prabhupāda: Permissible sex means married wife. One must be married and with married wife he can have sex once in a month after the menstrual period and when the wife is pregnant no more sex life. This is control. If he wants sex life he can have another wife but not to the pregnant wife.
Therefore we allow but not in your country but in India polygamy is allowed. One man can marry more than one wife but he cannot have sex life with the wife more than once in a month and that is stopped when she is pregnant. This is control of sex and . . . (indistinct) . . . against this that is illicit sex.