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vadanti te 'nyonyam upäsita-striyo
gahenu maithunya-pareñu cäçiñaù
yajanty asåñöänna-vidhäna-dakñiëaà
våttyai paraà ghnanti paçün atad-vidaù

sriya vibhutyabhijanena vidyayä
tyägena rüpeëa balena karmaëä
jäta-smayenändha-dhiyaù saheçvarän
sato 'vamanyanti hari-priyän khaläù

sarvenu sasvat tanu-bhatsv avasthitaà
yathä kham atmanam abhénoam ésvaram
vedopagitam ca na çåëvate 'budhä
mano-rathänäà pravadanti värtayä

loke vyaväyämiña-madya-sevä
nityä hi jantor na hi tatra codanä
vyavasthitis teñu viväha-yajïa
surä-grahair äsu nivåttir iñöä

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TRANSLATION

The materialistic followers of Vedic rituals, giving up the worship of the Lord, instead practically worship their wives, and thus their homes become dedicated to sex life. Such materialistic householders encourage one another in such whimsical behavior. Understanding ritualistic sacrifice as a necessary item for bodily maintenance, they perform unauthorized ceremonies in which there is no distribution of foodstuffs or charity to the brähmaëas and other respectable persons. Instead, they cruelly slaughter animals such as goats without any understanding of the dark consequences of their activities.

SB 11.5.9

TRANSLATION

The intelligence of cruel-minded persons is blinded by false pride based on great wealth, opulence, prestigious family connections, education, renunciation, personal beauty, physical strength and successful performance of Vedic rituals. Being intoxicated with this false pride, such cruel persons blaspheme the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotees.

 

SB 11-5-10

TRANSLATION

The Personality of Godhead is eternally situated within the heart of every embodied being; still the Lord remains situated apart, just as the sky, which is all-pervading, does not mix with any material object. Thus the Lord is the supreme worshipable object and the absolute controller of everything. He is elaborately glorified in the Vedic literature, but those who are bereft of intelligence do not like to hear about Him. They prefer to waste their time discussing their own mental concoctions, which inevitably deal with gross material sense gratification such as sex life and meat-eating.

SB 11-5-11

TRANSLATION


In this material world the conditioned soul is always inclined to sex, meat-eating and intoxication. Therefore religious scriptures never actually encourage such activities. Although the scriptural injunctions provide for sex through sacred marriage, for meat-eating through sacrificial offerings and for intoxication through the acceptance of ritual cups of wine, such ceremonies are meant for the ultimate purpose of renunciation.

 

 

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