Bhagavatam-daily 116 – 11.08.32 – Making money by sexually provoking others is reprehensible

Also get a similar realization and then correct the misdirection of our heart thank you shown so david brahmana is continuing to narrate the story of pingala and here pingala’s song is being she’s speaking her song and she’s lamenting her own condition i have tormented myself atma can refer to self atma can refer atma can refer to the soul i just tormented myself i have troubled my parita pito and that too vratha i’ve tormented myself in vain for what song how did i torment myself sangketya vrithya is generically it refers to the profession of a prostitute specifically bhaktasiddhanta thakur explains in his commentary that sanket is actually gestures expressions vritti is the habit the inclination to do that sanket vritti means that gesturing and expressing and acting in a way which provokes the other person so basically the the profession of sexual provocation sanketya vrithya ati vigarya vartaya this is a very abominable profession so actually in today’s world now not only is this profession widespread but actually it is going to become one of the most one of the biggest earning professions and that is the pornography industry so essentially pornography is simply about sexual arousal arousing people sexually so that they can their their infatuation with sex can be exploited you know sex and the attraction between the male and female is it’s always been a part of human society it is a part of material existence itself so it has been a part of human society always and it has also been depicted in art and culture but there are different different ways of depiction so even in scripture sometimes we find a depiction like this so romance is where the focus is more on the male-female relationship and there might be some explicit language or something like that so so romance is always there in most novels then there is beyond the romantic there is the erotic in the erotic there is explicit sexual usage there is an explicit sexual words and their explicit sexual depictions also whether it may be literature it may be movies or it may be actions whatever so erotic means it is not just male-female at a more emotional level it is at a more sensual level but in erotic often people claim that that that sort of sexual explicit sexual dysfunction is for the sake of art so irrespective of that the validity of that that means say somebody is depicting a novel in which there is a romance and in that to signify the intensity of the romance some people say that that it has to be the physical dimension of the relationship also has to be explicitly depicted so irrespective of the validity of this argument going further on the other extreme on the same extreme downwards is pornography where there is no relationship there are no emotions there is practically no story there is just the just the depiction of sex for the sake of exploiting others for the sake of provoking others and of course that provocation is done for exploiting now in the world today the sexual the pornography industry is becoming one of the biggest industries among the entertainment industries in America say soccer and baseball are very big but the revenue of the overall money that is involved in both the soccer and in both baseball and soccer combined together is far sorry not soccer it’s more like basketball and baseball in both combined together much more than that several times more than that is the money involved in the pornography industry so and not only is this money widely usage phenomenal amount of money spent but beyond that nowadays people have so distorted their values that instead of considering it to be a vigaria oh that is a abominable profession people think that oh this is our right to express ourselves it’s my body and I if I want to expose my body who are you to stop me from doing it and if I want to make a movie out of that why if you don’t like it you don’t see it but the problem with this logic is that actually what I do with my body is not something which affects me alone just as if a person has got a disease and let’s say if I’ve got a contagious disease and the person says you know I will roam around I will roam around with that disease now if you don’t want to get infected you don’t come close to me I’m not stopping you from coming close but why are you stopping me and restricting me in a particular place now obviously no government no doctor no society will agree to this if you have got a contagious disease you will get sequestered why because we cannot expect every person everywhere to know about the disease and to be cautious about the disease it’s far far safer and far more practical to restrict the movements of one person than to protect a million people so similarly those who similarly if people want to expose their bodies even if somebody has so so even if somebody wants to do that okay it’s your body you can actually from a philosophical point of view it’s not our body it’s Krishna’s body Krishna has given it to us and we can’t do what we want with it but even if somebody argues that it’s my body and I can do and people don’t necessarily accept God and his morality but still even from the point of view of social sanity the consequence of publicly exposing one’s body is what now people get agitated so just as there are infectious germs which may infect others similarly when there is there is sexually explicit imagery that comes up in the public domain then that practically shoots the germs of lust into people’s minds and then people get agitated and then people succumb to all sorts of horrible behavior and often they end up with diseases and psychosis and all those sorts of things like that so the point is that there is a class of people whether there are men or women men want to enjoy such things and women also either they do it for business or they also seek some pleasure out of it so pornography is something which is simply for arousing the animal instincts within man within people and making money out of that so Pingala is saying that as a prostitute you know it was not just the physical copulation that was there I also learned Sanket how to turn men on how to turn men on how to arouse them and thereby increase their anticipation and their their pleasure so she is now she was in a culture where she knew that what I was doing is abominable to use my body to seduce other people and to make money out of that this is a abominable profession and she is so in subjecting my body to this abominable profession I have tormented my body I have tormented my body at a physical level also but more than that at a at a higher level at a spiritual level I have wasted my life yeah and so how what is what was I doing? Stree is women, Strainan is men who are attached to women these were those who are mad and enslaved by lust and so instead of they leave their wedded wife at home and they come to some prostitutes Strainan, Narad are those human beings who are mad for women now they are also greedy they Anushochad, Anushochad means they are maddened by lust and although they may claim to be they may seem to have money but lust has made them into beggars so they are worth pitying that they are to be pitied actually because you know no matter how much we have if our emotions are not under control the emotions make us beggars for example when a man becomes greedy no matter how much he he or she has still they want more and more and that state of dissatisfaction and that state of craving for getting more and more and often not having the ability to get more and more is essentially the mentality of a beggar a beggar wants lots of things and doesn’t have those things and beggar also feels impoverished now we may say beggar also is actually impoverished that it doesn’t have food doesn’t have home or whatever but the point is there is a feeling of impoverishment also that comes with the fact now in the case of wealthy people who are greedy there may not be the actual fact of lacking but still there is a feeling of lacking and it is almost like a beggar and especially this happens with lust when a man becomes very lusty now that person feels so incomplete so dissatisfied so utterly empty without getting the pleasure that it is Anushochad that these people are pitiable lamentable so she is saying that for such people krtena vittam ratimatmanecchati krtena to such people what did i do i sold atmanecchati i sold my body to such people to get pleasure from them and to get vratim and vitta from wealth wealth from them but if people are in materialistic consciousness no matter how much they have wealth and sensual pleasure they want more and more of it so they themselves were depra they themselves were craving for more and more of it they did not have it and still they wanted and i thought that they will give it to me so it’s useless some a person who is craving and dissatisfied how can that person make me satisfied so it was all drita i tormented my body in vain thus pingala is lamenting her vigaryavartaya our abominable profession and how from the abominable she will rise to a respectable level