SB 07.09.45 Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham... cited

Expressions researched:
"Sex life is compared to the rubbing of two hands to relieve an itch" |"Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham" |"kandutivan manasijam visaheta dhirah" |"kanduyanena karayor iva duhkha-duhkham" |"trpyanti neha krpana bahu-duhkha-bhajah"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "7.9.45" or "Sex life is compared to the rubbing of two hands to relieve an itch" or "Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham" or "kandutivan manasijam visaheta dhirah" or "kanduyanena karayor iva duhkha-duhkham" or "trpyanti neha krpana bahu-duhkha-bhajah"

SB Canto 4

SB 4.25.39, Purport:

In this verse the woman is advocating pravṛtti-mārga only and is discouraging the path of nivṛtti-mārga. She clearly says that the yatis, the transcendentalists, who are concerned only with spiritual life (kaivalya), cannot imagine the happiness of pravṛtti-mārga. In other words, the man who follows the Vedic principles enjoys the materialistic way of life not only by becoming happy in this life, but also in the next life by being promoted to the heavenly planets. In this life such a person gets all kinds of material opulences, such as sons and grandsons, because he is always engaged in various religious functions. The material distresses are birth, old age, disease and death, but those who are interested in pravṛtti-mārga hold various religious functions at the time of birth, old age, disease and death. Without caring for the distresses of birth, old age, disease and death, they are addicted to performing the special functions according to the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies.

Factually, however, pravṛtti-mārga is based on sex life. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (7.9.45), yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham. A householder who is too much addicted to pravṛtti-mārga is actually called a gṛhamedhī, not a gṛhastha. Although the gṛhastha desires sense gratification, he acts according to Vedic instructions. The gṛhamedhī, however, who is interested only in sense gratification, does not follow any Vedic instruction. The gṛhamedhī engages himself as an advocate of sex life and also allows his sons and daughters to engage in sex and to be deprived of any glorious end in life. A gṛhastha enjoys sex life in this life as well as in the next, but a gṛhamedhī does not know what the next life is about because he is simply interested in sex in this life. On the whole, when one is too much inclined toward sex, he does not care for the transcendental spiritual life. In this age of Kali especially, no one is interested in spiritual advancement. Even though it is sometimes found that one may be interested in spiritual advancement, he is most likely to accept a bogus method of spiritual life, being misguided by so many pretenders.