Who is eligible to have more wives as said by Srila Prabhupada?
In some interesting conversations with his disciples and in his writings, Srila Prabhupada has written who can have more than one wife.
Let us see one such conversation here:
Train Conversation of Srila Prabhupada 11.1.1977: (Allahabad)
Ramesvara:
They say that when one man has many different women, then that is immoral.
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Prabhupada:
No, first of all answer. Suppose you are a big man, but you are product of s..x. Are you born differently, or through sex? What is the answer?
Ramesvara: S….x.
Prabhupada:
Yes. S..x is not bad. When it is misused, that is the defect. Otherwise, s…x is not bad.
Ramesvara:
The Western conception is that one man can only have one woman.
Prabhupada:
Why? If he can produce many big men, he can have hundreds of women. But you cannot do that. Therefore you are restrained. You are bad. You better restrain. Don’t have s..x, because you’ll produce cats and dogs. But one who is able to produce great brain, great philosophers, he should produce hundreds. You do not know how to produce good brain. Therefore you stop! Don’t produce cats and dogs. For you it is “Stop.” You do not know how to use s…x. Therefore you should stop. [break] You should not any more use s….x.
BUT, ONE WHO CAN PRODUCE BETTER BRAINS SHOULD HAVE HUNDREDS OF TIMES. You must know how to produce. That is Vedic civilization, dharmah samskara idam…(?) It is not a secrecy, how to produce brain.
And because brain is not produced, therefore there is agitation, that they have no brain. They do not know the value of this Krsna consciousness movement.
You have been produced like cats and dogs; therefore you cannot appreciate. Therefore you should stop.
But one who has power to produce brain, to produce Krsna conscious children, they should use.
Foodstuff is forbidden for a person who cannot digest. One who can digest food, he must eat sumptuously.
There is no restriction for him. Food is not bad. One who cannot digest, it is bad for him. This is the conclusion. What is food for one is poison for another.
If you cannot use sex power how to use it for better purposes, you should not use sex. What is that verse that Krsna says? Sarva-yonisu kaunteya… [Bg. 14.4].”
This is Simple.
Those who can protect and raise the children as the devotees, he has no limits.
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