[O Keshava! Tell me the essence of sweet devotion based on the three Puruṣārthas (dharma, artha and kāma) and three qualities (sattvam, rajas and tamas). O Krishna! Is it possible to attain equality between two souls of different genders?]

 

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

[There are three qualities called Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas. These three are always together. Sattvam represents awareness. Rajas represents inert energy. Tamas represents matter. These three are the fundamental components used in creation.]

[Of these three qualities, a single quality never exists independently since any quality is associated with the other two qualities. The other two qualities may be in very very small quantities. In the case of energy, scientists say that very small nature of matter or Tamas is associated with energy, which is called as rest mass.]

 

[Similarly, Sattvam is also associated with energy in very small quantity like the awareness associated in dream sleep. After all, awareness is nothing but a specific work form of inert energy in the functioning brain-nervous system. Depending upon the major quantity, independent guna (quality) is identified since a quality exhibits its own nature when such quality is in major quantity.]

 

[As we come down from top along the human body, Sattvam is the head standing for justice, Rajas is the heart standing for money or wealth and Tamas is sexual organ standing for sexual desire. Sattvam is non-inert awareness standing for brain or intelligence in the head. Rajas is inert action (Rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata— Gita) indicating the continuously functioning heart. Tamas represents desire with ignorance standing for the sexual organ.]

 

[Sattvam, which is the analytical intelligence is the driver. The heart standing for mind is the rope of the horse present in the hands of the driver. The sexual organ is the horse. These three represent justice, wealth and sexual desire respectively, which are the three worldly subjects (Puruṣārthas).]

 

[The heart is called Anāhata cakra, which means that it is the worldly bond that is not conquered by anybody so far. This place is related to the fascination towards one’s own children. Here itself, the fascination for wealth also exists. Rajas is also related to the aspects of wealth. Greediness, which is the main aspect of wealth, is due to Rajas only (Rajaso lobha eva ca – Gita). All this means that the heart, which is the place of love is concentrated on children and wealth, which means that the wealth is to be given to children. The mind is always related to intelligence. Hence, the intelligence present in the head is always working to create cunning plans to earn money to be given to children. The next lower place is the fascination towards spouse. This means that the three strongest worldly bonds with wealth, children and spouse, collectively called as Eṣaṇātrayam are represented by head, heart and sexual organ respectively as we come down from top along the human body. In this way, dharma, artha and kāma are related to the three qualities respectively.]

 

[If the driver or intelligence or Sattvam is perfect, the steering or the horse-controlling rope or mind or Rajas will be perfect and the horse or sexual sense or Tamas will also be perfect. This means that if perfect analysis is done, both Rajas or fascination towards children linked to wealth and Tamas or fascination towards spouse linked to sex & wealth also are controlled. All the three strongest worldly bonds can be controlled by perfect fascination towards spiritual knowledge.]

 

[In the energetic body, even an atom of sex cannot be seen. We say that in Goloka or the topmost energetic world, there exists permanent rāsa dance involving sex with God. This is only a white lie called as arthavāda to encourage the devotees here present in materialized bodies having uncontrollable sexual desires.]

 

[In the materialized body, the feeling of sex exists and hence, the preacher says that a devotee can enjoy sex with God permanently in the upper energetic world also. By this, the devotee is encouraged. Hence, such preaching is only a white lie. Actually, scientists say that the hormones are materialized substances, which generate the feeling of sex. Since matter is almost absent in the body of energy, the feeling of sex does not arise in the energetic body.]

 

[It is not wrong to possess the feeling of sex since the body here is materialized with the existence of materialized hormones that cause the feeling of sex. The devotee in the middle spiritual stage will have sexual feeling towards God even when the spouse-bond is destroyed along with all other worldly bonds. In this case, only the worldly bonds are destroyed, but, the worldly fascinations are not destroyed, standing as a hurdle to merge with God permanently. Since God is omniscient, He knows this sex feeling of the devotee and hence, the devotee need not express it to God.]

 

[In the school of Śākteyaas, there is a bad tradition called Vāmācāra in which a person invites Divine Mother, Śakti, into the body of a lady other than his wife and then, he does sexual activity with her. Since such lady is not his wife and also, the invited Divine Mother is the assumed mother, such a double sinner is seriously punished in the hell. Here, the first sin is to have sexual feeling towards Divine Mother and the second sin is to do sex with a lady other than wife.]

 

[When the Divine Mother, Shakti, is the Mother for male souls, her husband, God, shall be the Father for female souls. Hence, for both male and female souls, both God and Goddess Śakti are Father and Mother called as Divine Parents. Hence, from the view of all souls, both God Krishna and Goddess Radha are to be viewed as perfect celibates only. This Vāmācāra is only fulfilling his sexual desire with the females other than his wife.]

 

[Let such fellow following Vāmācāra invoke Goddess Śakti on his wife and invoke God Shiva on him and then, enjoy sex with her. Now, there is no sin because he is enjoying his own one wife and she is enjoying her own one husband.]

 

[If the lady to be enjoyed is other than his wife, the Divine Mother does not enter the lady, whom he wants to enjoy. The enjoyer is just a created soul and the Divine Mother, who is the Mother of that soul, is the Creator. Moreover, the effect power (Kārya Śakti or energy) is directly modified into the soul. This effect power is created by the causal power (Kāraṇa Śakti or the inseparable unimaginable power). The causal power is not directly modified into the soul. God becomes Father since He is the husband of His unimaginable power or Kāraṇa Śakti.]

 

[God generated His will, which is compared to His seed or sperm. In the case of Divine Mother, her generated effect, which is the energy, is modified into soul. Hence, both God and His power are treated as indirect parents only. In such case, if you reject the differentiation among souls by the way of gender, we have to accept the romance between the Divine Mother and the soul, which is absurd! The rule that the gender-difference should not be followed is standing as hurdle to generalize the policy. Hence, God also stands as the Father only to all souls (God told in the Gita that He is the Father of the souls “Ahaṃ bīja pradaḥ pitā”)]

 

[Therefore, during the ritual of marriage, the bridegroom is said to be God Nārāyaṇa, which means God Nārāyaṇa is invoked on the bridegroom and the bride is said to be Goddess Lakshmi, which means Goddess Lakshmi is invoked on the bride. Since the bride is the wife of the bridegroom, there is no trace of sin in this case.]

 

[Moreover, when a devotee forms romantic bond with God, the aspiration for sex with Him happens to be the desire for selfish enjoyment. The true love to God must always be without any aspiration in return from God. Hence, such devotee can live thinking God as her darling throughout her life provided such desire is very strong and uncontrollable for the devoted soul.]

 

[In the Kali age, Mīrā will be like that only. She lives with a statue of God Krishna alone. Since Mīrā is the incarnation of Radha, she craves for His union and God Krishna also meets with her secretly since she is the incarnation of His divine darling, Radha.]

 

[If the desire of the devotee for God is very strong, such devotee will be satisfied through His created form having the same form of God. Between His created form and His original form, there is no difference. The unimaginable God present in the original form is completely detached from the point of the devoted soul because such God is not at all grasped by the devotee since the devotee is a human soul unable to grasp the unimaginable God. Even when the union with the incarnation of God happens, it is between the two-external media of the soul and God only. Any external medium (may be the medium of God or may be the medium of the soul) is always with the same five elements, energy and awareness only.]

 

[However, if the devotee is craving for My original form and does a lot of penance, I will invoke you on her and I will invoke Myself on her husband. In such union, there is no sin and My celibacy is not spoiled.]

 

[In such mentioned above state, the absolute bliss of Parabrahman and His power called Mahāmāyā can’t be experienced by anybody other than themselves. But, the happiness we get in our energetic forms can be experienced by such devoted human couple into whom we both enter in merged state.]

 

[The maximum limits of happiness of various states of souls are described and heard by all of us in the Ānandavallī of the Veda. It means that the human beings or the energetic beings can’t cross their stipulated maximum limits of happiness. Even though the sexual pleasure is not possible in the energetic body due to impossible existence of materialized hormones, it can be generated due to the power of My will.]

 

[If a soul wants to enjoy the bliss of Parabrahman, such a good soul must merge through devotion and total surrender in either Myself or Yourself containing that Parabrahman in merged state. Such state results only when all the worldly bonds along with their fascinations leave the soul permanently.]