In the flat where I’m staying, in the bathroom there are all Garfield stickers on the tiles! And Garfield is in different outfits and he’s got a sports outfit and a motorbike outfit and a study outfit and then sure enough, there is a few of Garfield in love! You know...in love? He fell in lust. That’s not love because love is selfless. So that’s not exactly what Garfield is going through. And yes, Garfield is of course nothing but a mirror to the reader of the newspapers and well, there are plenty of those in this world. So that is what life is all about- Garfield! And from our perspective it’s just garbage, what shall I say! Celibacy then is therefore not the meditation of the vaisnava, rather meditation is the prerequisite, is a support. But a vaisnava is not constantly thinking about celibacy and even if a vaisnava starts to struggle with celibacy, the struggle begins in the mind. At that stage, the solution for the struggle is to become absorbed in Krsna, is to think of Krsna, is to do service for Krsna, is to read about Krsna and to preoccupy our mind in Krsna…(HH KKS, 8 Apr '08, Amsterdam)
