The Proper Conduct Regarding Young Girls in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the critical distinction between the lusty associations of the material world and the pure, transcendental pastimes of the spiritual realm. By studying his instructions, we learn why strict caution is necessary for conditioned souls, how the advanced devotee remains steady, and why the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa must never be imitated by mundane society.
The Danger of Unrestricted Association
Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that the attraction between young boys and young girls is a powerful material force that can easily derail a spiritual practitioner. To maintain the necessary focus for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, strict guidelines are provided to protect the devotee from unwanted agitation and entanglement.
- A brahmacari is forbidden to see even young girl. Even the spiritual master's wife is young . . . Adau mata guru-patni. There are seven mothers. So real mother, adau mata. Guru-patni, the spiritual master's wife, she is also mother.
- A young girl becomes captivated by seeing a very nice boy, or a nice boy is captivated to see the beauty of a girl. These are sense gratification. There is no prema; that is kama.
- A sannyasi should not take part in a marriage ceremony between a young boy and a young girl. However, this is not a karma-kanda activity, because our purpose is to spread the Krsna consciousness movement.
- Kali-yuga is so fallen. If a young man sees another young man he's enjoying with another young girl, then naturally his lusty desires increases. So these things are forbidden therefore.
The Steady Mind of the Advanced Devotee
The definition of a dhīra is one who remains undisturbed by the objects of the senses. Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently cites the examples of Lord Śiva and Rāmānanda Rāya, who remained perfectly composed even in the intimate presence of young girls, proving that genuine spiritual advancement leads to complete control over the mind.
- Although this (Parvati) young girl sat before Lord Siva and touched his genitals, Lord Siva was steady in meditation. Kalidasa says - Here is an example of a dhira, for despite a young girl's touching his genitals, he was undisturbed.
- Parvati, young age, beautiful girl, and Lord Siva is meditating naked, and she was offering worshipable flowers on the genital. Still, he was not disturbed. Young girl touching the genital of a person, but he is not disturbed. That is dhirah.
- His mind is as steady as wood or stone. Indeed, it is wonderful that even when he touches such young girls, his mind never changes.
- In our Society, compulsorily we have to mix with women - not only women, very beautiful young girls. But if one is not agitated even in this association of beautiful women and girls, then he is to be considered paramahamsa. He is very advanced.
Distinguishing Transcendental Love from Lust
It is a grave mistake to interpret Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes with the gopīs using mundane standards of morality. Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that these activities are purely spiritual and that anyone who thinks of the Lord’s interactions with young girls in a lusty way is simply projecting their own material contamination.
- The gopis, they are going to Krsna, superficially the same thing, like the young girls are going to a young boy, but they are going for Krsna's satisfaction, not for their own satisfaction. That is the sublime.
- Krsna was very beautiful. So gopis became attracted with Krsna. As it is natural, a young boy is attracted with young woman or young girl is attracted.
- The gopis, being young girls, approached Krsna because He was a beautiful young boy. From the external point of view, they approached the Lord out of lust, and the Lord danced with them at midnight.
- They (ordinary men) foolishly think that Krsna is like themselves and that He embraces the gopis just as an ordinary man embraces a young girl - CC Intro.
The Peril of Mundane Imitation
Śrīla Prabhupāda strongly warns against the atheistic tendency to imitate the pastimes of the Lord. Those who try to enjoy the company of young girls while claiming to be on the level of Kṛṣṇa are actually performing abominable acts that lead directly to degradation.
- Because people cannot understand Krsna, when they hear about Krsna's dancing with the gopis, they take this as some kind of concession, and say, "Now let us dance with young girls." In this way they go to hell.
- In many instances they (the Mayavadis) were checked by the government, arrested and punished. In Orissa, Thakura Bhaktivinoda punished a so-called incarnation of Visnu who was imitating the rasa-lila with young girls.
- The answer anticipates the abominable acts of the Mayavadi impersonalists who place themselves in the position of Krsna and enjoy the company of young girls and women.
- One must understand this subject (of Ramananda Raya's serving two young girls by massaging their bodies with oil) very seriously and never attempt to imitate such activities.
The Natural Propensity for Loving Exchange
The desire for affectionate association is innate in every living entity because it originates from our eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the attraction young boys and girls feel in the material world is but a perverted reflection of the original, pure propensities that exist in the spiritual world.
- All the desires and propensities what God has got, we have also got. God has got this propensity to love Radharani. We have got also the same propensity to love another young girl or young boy. So originally it is there.
- In the Skanda Purana there is a statement by devotees praying to the Lord, "My Lord, I know that young girls have natural affection for young boys, and that young boys have natural affection for young girls."
- Feeling of sex life in young boys and girls is quite natural, but one has to check such sex life by reason, argument, and knowledge.
- We are seeking pleasure within this material world. That is imitation. That is not real enjoyment. But the basic principle of enjoyment is there. Here there is imitation enjoyment - love between young boy, young girl is there. So wherefrom it comes?
The Frustration of Materialistic Society
Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently observes that despite the freedom to mix, young girls and boys in the modern world are profoundly frustrated. They seek lasting happiness in sense gratification, but because they are disconnected from the Supreme Lord, they find only emptiness, confusion, and the "hippie" lifestyle.
- All young boys and young girls, they are after joyfulness, but they are being frustrated in this material world. That is the inebriety. The spiritual world means these things are there, but without any inebriety.
- If there is happiness, why the young boys and girls become hippies? No. Happiness is different. So long you have got this material body, there is no question of happiness, either this American body or Indian body. That they do not know.
- Everywhere, all over the world, the young boys and girls, they have no fixture where they'll live, where they'll take their bath, where they'll eat or how they have sex. No.
- Because the machine and industry, therefore, now they are producing from the university hippies. Unemployed. Thousands and thousands of young boys and girls. Girls are not meant for working outside. Girls are meant for working inside.
Conclusion
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s teachings reveal that the attraction to young girls and the general desire for intimacy is a natural part of the living entity’s constitution, but it has become distorted due to our separation from the Supreme Lord. In the material world, the pursuit of such pleasure is inherently agitating and leads to frustration, whereas in the spiritual world, these very propensities are expressed in their pure, transcendental form. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement serves as a vital bridge, helping youth realize that true happiness is found not in material lust, but in the selfless service of Kṛṣṇa. By understanding the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda, devotees can navigate these natural inclinations with purity and steady determination, eventually attaining the perfect, blissful life in the spiritual realm where all activities are eternally focused on the pleasure of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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