Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.30

Uncontrolled Senses Enter Darkness - Real Self-Interest Is Vishnu

📅 September 9, 1971 📍 London ⏱ 45 min
Uncontrolled senses lead to darkness; offer your desires to Krishna and find perfect fulfillment.
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] Haribol. London lecture number 16, evening, September 9th, 1971, London temple.

Prabhupāda: matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā mitho 'bhipadyeta gṛha-vratānām adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisraṁ punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām [SB 7.5.30] Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram. Adānta means uncontrolled. Our materialistic life means we cannot control our senses and the mind. The mind is dictating that "Enjoy your senses in this way..." [feedback] What is this sound? And our...

We are enjoying our senses. Materialistic life means... [feedback] [aside:] Stop that sound. Stop that. We don't want it. Śyāmasundara: Turn it off. Prabhupāda: So materialistic life means sense gratification.

This sense gratification process is going on life after life. So many varieties of life means different standard of sense gratification. Kṛṣṇa is so kind that he has given us full liberty to gratify our senses. Kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga-vāñchā kare [Prema-vivarta]. We are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, but we are living entities, and because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, we have got all the desires of Kṛṣṇa in small particle.

As our existence is a small particle... Just like, try to understand, gold and a small particle of gold. So the small particle of gold has got all the qualities of the original gold. Just like sense gratification.

Kṛṣṇa has got also propensity for sense gratification. He is the original sense-gratifier, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā: bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram [Bg. 5.29]. Supreme enjoyer. Wherefrom the enjoying spirit of us come? Because it is there in Kṛṣṇa.

Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. The Vedānta-sūtra says everything is originated from Kṛṣṇa. Para-brahman, or the Absolute Truth, means where everything is generated. That is Absolute Truth. Therefore our desire for sense gratification is from Kṛṣṇa.

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