If you have something best then you forget low grade pleasure. So this sex pleasure is lower grade pleasure. It is not pleasure, it is illusion, but in material world this is the greatest pleasure

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"Something best, then you forget lower-grade pleasure. So this sex pleasure is lower-grade pleasure. It is not pleasure, it is illusion. But in material world this is the greatest pleasure"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Something best, then you forget lower-grade pleasure. So this sex pleasure is lower-grade pleasure. It is not pleasure, it is illusion. But in material world this is the greatest pleasure.

740620 - Conversation - Germany

Yes, in the spiritual life there is no sex life. In the spiritual world there is no sex intercourse. There is no sex life. Although there is man and woman, but there is no sex intercourse. By chanting the glories of God there in the spiritual world, they get so much great pleasure that is far beyond this pleasure of sex life. Something best, then you forget lower-grade pleasure. So this sex pleasure is lower-grade pleasure. It is not pleasure, it is illusion. But in material world this is the greatest pleasure. Therefore everyone, they are coming back to the sex pleasure. Everyone. Even so-called religionists and svāmīs and . . . they are coming down to the sex pleasure. Because in this material world that is the only highest pleasure.

So, so long one will be attracted by the sex pleasure, it is still in the material world. And when one will be on the platform to spit (makes spitting noise) on sex pleasure, then his spiritual life begins. That is stated by Yāmunācārya:

yad avadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṇa-pādāravindayor

nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyata rantum āsīt

tad-avadhi bata nārī-saṅgame smarya māne

bhavati mukha-vikāraḥ suṣṭhu niṣṭhīvanaṁ ca

Yāmunācārya, a great saintly person, he was formerly big king, so he said: "Since I have become Kṛṣṇa conscious and enjoying, since that time, as soon as I remember even sex life, I spit on it and my mouth becomes turned." (makes sound of repugnance) This is the test. Not that you become very advanced spiritualist and at the same time advance in sex life. That is not. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra . . . (SB 11.2.42). That is the test, that as soon as you are advanced in spiritual life, all these materialistic habits will be rejected automatically. This is the test. Four things are material demands—eating, satisfaction of the tongue or belly and satisfaction of the genital, āhāra; and sleeping and to become good defender, defense measure. These are material necessity. And the one who is spiritually advanced, these things will be reduced, almost nil. What Christ says, Jesus Christ, about sex life? What does he say?