What does the regulative principle no illicit sex mean?

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Krishna’s supreme abode. Thank you.
That is the meaning of the verse. There is an article on the other words also in this example. See, just like in food, in the eating of food, there are various levels of regulation.
Best standard is that the food is cooked by devotees, offered properly to the deities and then served by devotees and honoured in the devotional frame of mind. That is the, not just cooked by devotees, you could also have harvested by devotees. That is a very good standard.
Now from this point onwards, if you can say this as a very high standard, from this point onwards till the point of eating it, all of them are ascending and all of them are acceptable standards of food. Sometimes some people, even as brahmacharis also, if you are travelling and there is no food available, sometimes you may take some nutrient food from a shop and we may eat it. We may go to some Jain mess and take some food without onion, garlic or whatever.
Now, some of that is, that was not cooked by devotees. They are not even having details to offer it. You might just offer in the mind or you might offer before some picture and then we may take the food.
That is not a good standard. That is acceptable. So, now if somebody says, oh, there is no food available, so I ate meat.
That is a serious issue. That is a very serious issue. So, no meat eating is like a very strong no, no, no.
From the standard of ideal prasadam down to various ways in which food offered to Krishna, all of them are acceptable. But this meat eating is a very strong no, no, no. Now for all these also we can say there is no, no, no, no.
No, that means for, okay, should somebody eat biscuits, should somebody eat chocolates? No, that is still devotees will not eat. But it is not that somebody is eating biscuits, that person is doing a very serious sinful activity for which you have to court-martial them. Isn’t it? No, it is not like that.
It is not an issue to go on a campaign over. So, just as the principle of prasad, of eating or the activity of eating, there is a whole range of standards from no meat eating onwards upwards till pure prasadam. So, like that, from the standard of no sex outside marriage to sex only for procreation, it is all a continuum.
And different people will be at different levels in this country. And yes, we all would like to take prasadam which is very pure. So, like that everybody should be aspiring for the standard of sex only for procreation.
But just as it is not that just because one cannot be at this level, that does not mean everything else is the same. Within Vyajasthan because one cannot eat pure prasadam, that does not mean that, okay, I will eat meat, I will eat eggs, I will eat fish or whatever. No, there is a big difference between that and food that is offerable to Krishna.
So, like that, from the standard of sex only for procreation to sex outside marriage, there is a huge difference. So, from sex within marriage to sex for procreation, it is all a continuum. And that all is like food that is offered at various levels.
So, that way, we understand that these are ranges. And the absolute no, no, meat is a firm no. So, like that, sex outside marriage is very strong.
We could say very strong, just like the meat, but from there, there are various standards. Does that answer your question? So, I think we are quite over time now. Other questions that are there, we may take tomorrow.
Thank you very much.