Take Me to Your "SEX"

ancient_paztriot · May 13, 2004

Hayagriva dasa: Jung gave the following criticism of Sigmund Freud: “Sexuality evidently meant more to Freud than to other people. For him it was something to be religiously observed… One thing was clear; Freud, who had always made much of his irreligiosity, had now contructed a dogma, or rather, in the place of a jealous God whom he had lost, he had substituted another compelling image, that of sexuality.”

Srila Prabhupada: Yes, that is a fact. He has taken sexuality to be God. It is our natural tendency to accept a leader, and Freud abandoned the leadership of God and took up the leadership of sex. In any case, we must have leadership. That is our position. In Russia, I pointed out that there is no dfference in our philosophic processes. However, whereas they accept Lenin as their leader, we accept Krsna. It is the nature of human beings to accept a leader. It is unfortunate that Freud lost God’s leadership and took up instead the leadership of sex.

Hayagriva dasa: Jung concluded: “Freud never asked himself why he was compelled to talk continually of sex, why this idea had taken such possession of him. He remained unaware that his ‘monotony of interpretation’ expressed a flight from himself, or from that other side of him which might perhaps be called mystical. so long as he refused to acknowledge that side, he could never be reconciled with himself.”

Srila Prabhupada: Yes, that was because he was accepting the leadership of sexuality. If we accept the leadership of Krsna, our life becomes perfect. All other leadership is maya’s leadership. There is no doubt that we have to accept a leader, and therefore he was constantly speaking about sex. Those who have taken God as their leader will speak only of God, nothing else. Jivera ‘svarupa’ haya——krsnera ‘nitya-dasa’ (Caitanya-caritamrta, Madh. 20.108). According to Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s philosophy, we are all eternal servants of God, but as soon as we give up God’s service, we have to accept the service of maya.