Is an initiated devotee taking Potency treatment allowed?

Is an initiated devotee taking Potency treatment allowed?

“Hare Krsna, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Pls Hide my Name. We are both wife and Husband initiated devotees. We have one ……..year old Daughter. I am ……. years old my wife is …… year old. I am not interested in s….x. how to tell my partner? She is forcing for that. If I am not do, she will get upset. I have diabatic Disease. So I am weak. So can I go for s…..x treatment? As devotees can we do this? Pls tell pr what to do? Ys ——-”

REPLY:

This is a difficult situation for you.

Because, there will always be a conflict between the material concepts and Spiritual rules.

Taking garlic is good for the heart and immunity;

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But, taking garlic induces the senses and hence discouraged for those who like to advance in their devotional life.

However, when a devotee gets admitted in the hospital, the doctors prescribe many medicines that may contain the materials prohibited for the devotees.

So, we are in a helpless position to go with the arising situations from time to time.

In your case, it is the general advice for the initiated devotees to focus more in devotion by reducing the material desires and lust.

You have lost your interest in s…x life. Your wife still has interest in it.

You are a diabetic. You want to reduce it.

But, because of the compulsion from the wife, you like to satisfy her private needs.

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For making you fit for that, you like to take treatment for potency.

Here, we can’t find fault in you or your wife.

Whom else a wife can ask that except her husband?

Of course, devotional rules to reduce sense gratification are also important.

At the same time, Pati dharma is also important. As per Pati dharma, a husband should satisfy the needs of his wife. As per the stri dharma, a wife should satisfy the needs of her husband.

If I advise you to continue to be controlled in s…x life, some issues may arise between you and your wife.

Both are the initiated devotees. So, this marriage should be protected.

First, let us think of how to guide your wife:

Spiritual solution for her is to chant as much as possible from heart daily and involve more in reading the scriptures, performing loving service to Krishna and honouring only prasadam.

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If sincerely done, these steps and sadhanas will help her control her senses. When the thoughts of Krishna dominates her, her senses will come under control.

However, some planet positions give more sense disturbances. So, she may have more disturbances. I can understand. She may also be helpless.

So, She must be very serious in sadhanas, reading and devotee association.

Since she is nearing her forties, she may get some sense control in the next 5-6 years.

Till that, you have to manage.

S….xual ability in about 75% cases, is dependant on the mood and mind. Only for the 10% of the cases, the issue will be in their bodies. So, unless you too develop some interest in that activity for the sake of helping your wife, you can’t involve in that activity.

So, first develop a mindset to satisfy your helpless wife as it is the pati dharma for you. If such a mindset helps you to help your wife, good.

Take good food and love your wife and approach her as a helpless woman who is depending on you only for her sense disturbances.

If it is not successful, take ayurveda or siddha treatment by approaching a good specialist for that.

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Do not get cheated by bogus doctors advertising in the railway stations or bus stands through notices.

Get a decent treatment from a decent hospital.

But, you need not go for strong medicines like instantly motivating tablets available in the medical stores. They are dangerous for your heart as they destabilise your blood pressure and nervous system.

A devotee taking Potency treatment from the traditional Ayurveda and Siddha systems of medicine, in exceptional cases like yours.

Above all, it is the effect of mind in most cases. Also think of this aspect.

You can also request a very reliable Senior lady devotee to guide her in that matter. However, there is a risk in that. Since all the persons can’t maintain secrecy as I do in our site’s counselling service, you can go for a professional lady gynecologist and make your wife to get her advice.

If you keep your diabetes under control by using regular tablets, it may not affect your performance to much extent.

So, the Priority of my advice is:

(i) First follow the spiritual ways suggested above;

(ii) Secondly, keep your mind loving and favourable to make your wife happy; Then, body may also cooperate;

(iii) Thirdly, Take simple Ayurveda and Siddha treatments from a genuine doctor

(iv) Finally, Never go for artificially and temporarily motivating medications.

Hope this helped you to know whether an initiated devotee taking Potency treatment allowed or not.

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Author: RAJAN

RAJAN from Tamil Nadu, India, a Life Patron and an Initiated Devotee being in ISKCON for nearly three decades, serves anonymously to avoid Prominence and crowd as an insignificant, Humble and Neutral Servant for all the devotees of Krishna! He promotes Social media forums and this blog-website as e-satsangha (e-forums) blessed with Lakhs of followers, to give Spiritual Solutions for all the Material Problems of the devotees since 2011! He writes friendly and practical tips to practice devotion (i) without hurting the followers of other paths, (ii) without affecting the personal and career life, and (iii) without the blind, superstitious and ritualistic approach! He dedicates all the glories and credits to his Guru and Krishna.