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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Simply just observe the four regulative principle—no illicit sex, no gambling, no meat-eating and no intoxication. This much we have to practice if we are actually serious to go . . . advance in spiritual life.
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[[Vanisource:730907 - Lecture SB 05.05.01-2 - Stockholm|730907 - Lecture SB 05.05.01-2 - Stockholm]]
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Why don't you . . .?" Similarly, his wife, he's a qualified gynecologist. So what is her business? Her business is how to kill the child within the womb—abortion. Just see. Both are experts. One expert is engaged in the hellish condition of the mine, in darkness; another expert is engaged in killing small babies within the womb. You see? Therefore the result will be that they are going to hell. Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30]]). Again doing the same thing, again going to the hellish condition of life. This is called tamo-dvāram, ignorance. Tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam.

Therefore, to make advancement in spiritual life one must be serious to practice vairāgya. Tapasya. That is tapasya. If you practice vairāgya, deny, "No, I shall not eat these things. I shall not drink these things. I shall not do like this," abnegation—that we have to practice. That we have to practice. But although it is very difficult, so far we are concerned, we have made the things very concise. Simply just observe the four regulative principle—no illicit sex, no gambling, no meat-eating and no intoxication. This much we have to practice if we are actually serious to go . . . advance in spiritual life. This is vairāgya, voluntarily. Now, what is the difficulty? You want sex life, why don't you live, husband and wife, married? Sex life is not denied, but not outside the marriage. That is denied.

A little vairāgya. But we have made such a civilization that no responsibility for marriage. Let the girls become prostitutes and enjoy and go away. Horrible civilization. They are going towards hell, punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30]]). But they do not know. Neither do they care. It is very serious situation of the present civilization.
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