Engage your senses in Krishna's service rather than artificially suppressing them through false renunciation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 3.6–10 — December 23, 1968, Los Angeles 681223BG-LOS ANGELES [55:33 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [prema-dhvani] Jaya [devotees offer obeisances] Read verse. Sudāmā: Verse 6, Chapter Two..., sorry, Three. Prabhupāda: Go on. Sudāmā: "One who restrains the senses and organs of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender." [Bg. 3.6] [One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.] Prabhupāda: Yes. This is very important thing. Yoga indriya-saṁyamya. Yoga, the definition of yoga means sense control, controlling the sense.
So here Kṛṣṇa says that you cannot control your senses artificially. It is not possible. Those who are trying... Just like some of the yogīs, they close their eyes: "Oh, I'll not see beautiful woman." That is another practice.
But that does not mean that he can control his senses. No. You cannot curb down the natural force of sense. This is the secret.
People do not know. And if you let the senses go on in its own way, that is also dangerous. Then you are going to hell. Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram.
If your senses are not controlled, then your senses will drag you to the darkest region of hell. That is another problem. Generally, in the material world, adānta—adānta means uncontrolled; go—go means senses. Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisraṁ punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām [SB 7.5.30]. [Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward hellish conditions and repeatedly chew that which has already been chewed. Their inclinations toward Kṛṣṇa are never aroused, either by the instructions of others, by their own efforts, or by a combination of both.] Simply repeating, chewing the chewed. The whole history of the world, you just study, is a history of sense gratification. Just take, for example, some twenty years ago one Mr. Adolf Hitler came in the scene, and there was great upheaval as war in Europe and America.
From 1933 to 1947 or something like that, the whole world was in trouble. But he is gone, finished. And what did he do? Sense gratification, that's all.
He wanted that this way government should be, according to his own sense. Another person, just like Mr. Churchill or your President Roosevelt, they said, "No. The sense gratification should not be like that. The sense gratification should be like this." [laughter] So it is the war of sense gratification.