Morning Walk [Partially Recorded]

Prabhupāda: ...no woman can...

[break] So I took it very a cheap price.

There was no question of woman. I kept my office there. And the address was Multani temple. This is a famous temple, from [indistinct], Grant Road. And in my retired life my office was there, Rādhā-Kṛṣṅa temple, and Delhi, Chippiwada. And my residence was Rādhā-Dāmodara temple. And before that, that Keśī Ghāṭa. Who has seen that? You have...?

Devotee: Oh, yes.

Prabhupāda: That was also temple. Yes.

Ātreya Ṛṣi: Kṛṣṅa has arranged.

Indian devotee (2): Very nice side, Prabhupāda, there.

Prabhupāda: I lived in that house for seven years. And then I came to Rādhā-Dāmodara temple.

Devotee: Very nice there.

Prabhupāda: Huh? Which way? [break] ...stayed in that Rādhā-Kṛṣṅa temple, Malliks. And still I am living in temple. So Kṛṣṅa has arranged nicely, from the beginning of my life, temple. Which way? This way? [break] Medha. This is called medha, this rod, central. So the, the bull is bound up with it, and he goes round, goes round, all day. So gṛhamedhī means center is home, and he goes round, throughout the whole life. They are called gṛhamedhīs.

Hṛdayānanda: This is called medha.

Prabhupāda: Medha, yes. Another medha means killing. So one who keeps himself in household life, he kills himself. Killing. Gṛhamedhī. And that is little long-term meaning. But this is the direct meaning. The medha rod is there, and he simply... He's very busy. Busy means within few feet. But he's thinking he's very busy. Anyone got..., he has got home, and he's simply rounding about. Anywhere you go, the center is that. And what is that gṛha? [aside:] Where? Which way?

Bhavānanda: This way, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhur gṛhiṅī gṛham ucyate [Cc Ādi 15.27]. The gṛham, house, is not actually gṛha. Gṛha means the wife. Gṛhiṅī gṛham ucyate na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhuḥ. Gṛhiṅī gṛham ucyate. So to become householder means one must have a wife. So actually round the wife. Gṛhamedhī: round the wife. And what is wife means, everyone knows. It means round that thing. Is that good analysis?

Devotees: Jaya.

Prabhupāda: Na gṛhaṁ gṛham ucyate. [break] ...explain. It is not my manufacture. What is said? Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi... [break] ...tuccham. The gṛhamedhī's happiness, what is that happiness? Maithunādi: sex. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukham. Gṛhamedhi-sukham [SB 7.9.45].

[Sex life is compared to the rubbing of two hands to relieve an itch. Gṛhamedhīs, so-called gṛhasthas who have no spiritual knowledge, think that this itching is the greatest platform of happiness, although actually it is a source of distress. The kṛpaṅas, the fools who are just the opposite of brāhmaṅas, are not satisfied by repeated sensuous enjoyment. Those who are dhīra, however, who are sober and who tolerate this itching, are not subjected to the sufferings of fools and rascals.]

Those who are gṛhamedhīs, what is their happiness? Sex, that's all. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukham. And what is that sex? Kaṅḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham. It is itching between the two hands. Kaṅḍūyanena kara. But the..., after that itching, there is very bad effect. Kaṅḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham—that is unhappiness. Therefore tṛpyanti neha kṛpaṅā bahu-duḥkha-bhājaḥ [SB 7.9.45]. Those who are kṛpaṅā, they are not satisfied. They want to do it... [break] [end]