Purify desire by engaging all senses in Krishna's service; everything becomes spiritualized.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 5.17–25 — February 8, 1969, Los Angeles 690208BG-LOS ANGELES [63:44 Minutes] Bg-05.17–25_690208BG-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: All glories to the assembled devotees.
Devotees: All glories to Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Devotee: Page one hundred and forty four.
Prabhupāda: Yes, go on. Where is that boy Kamalāsana? Devotee (2): He's here.
Prabhupāda: Go on reading. Who will read? You will? Revatīnandana: [reading Bg. 5.17-20] "When one's intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete knowledge and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation." Prabhupāda: Hmm.
Revatīnandana: "The humble sage sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater, or outcaste. "Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and as such, are already situated in Brahman. "A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant; who is self-intelligent, unbewildered and who knows the science of God, is to be understood as already situated in transcendence. "Purport..." Prabhupāda: "A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant; who is self-intelligent, unbewildered and who knows the science of God, is to be understood as already situated in transcendence." Yes.
Go on. Revatīnandana: Purport: "The symptoms of the self-realized person are given herein. The first symptom is that he is not illusioned by the false identification of the body with his true self." Prabhupāda: Yes. So achieving something pleasant... Generally we accept a thing pleasant when it satisfies our senses.