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Loving a man

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

A woman is loving a man for satisfying her senses, and the man is loving a woman for satisfying.
Lecture on BG 2.9 -- London, August 15, 1973: At the present moment, everyone is trying to satisfy his senses. Ahaṁ mameti. Janasya moho 'yam [SB 5.5.8]. Puṁsaḥ striyā maithunī-bhāvam etat. The whole material world is that... There are two living entities, male and female. The male is trying also, satisfy his senses, and the female is also trying to satisfy her senses. Here the so-called love means... There is no love. It cannot be love. Because the man and woman, nobody is trying to satisfy the other party's senses. Everyone is trying to satisfy his or her senses. A woman is loving a man for satisfying her senses, and the man is loving a woman for satisfying. Therefore, as soon as there is some little disturbance in the sense gratification, divorce. "I don't want it." Because the central point is personal sense gratification.
So if there is a question of love, the (indistinct) a man loving a woman and woman loving a man, that is in God.
Lecture on BG 3.27 -- Melbourne, June 27, 1974: And all the desires and propensities what God has got, we have also got. God has got this propensity to love Rādhārāṇī. We have got also the same propensity to love another young girl or young boy. So originally it is there. Therefore in the Vedānta-sūtra it is said janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. God means from whom everything has come. So if there is a question of love, the (indistinct) a man loving a woman and woman loving a man, that is in God. It must be there. Otherwise wherefrom it has come?
Page Title:Loving a man
Compiler: Siddha Rupa, Visnu Murti
Created:19 of Jan, 2008
No. of Quotes:2
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=0, Let=0