True mastery lies in conquering the senses; true perception arrives when superior reality becomes visible.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 18, 1974, Bombay 740418MW-BOMBAY [15:40 Minutes] Walk_740418MW-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: ...cetasā nānya-gāminā. One has to practice. [break] It will take some time. [break] ...yuktena cetasā nānya-gāminā.
One has to practice. That means his determination is not yet fixed up. Because he is very rich, he is thinking that "This is all right." That is another defect of becoming very much rich. Bhogaiśvarya prasaktānāṁ tayā upahṛta-cetasām [Bg. 2.44]: "Those who are too much attached to this material enjoyment and..., by which his consciousness is bewildered..." All these defects are there because he is too much attached to material enjoyment.
Give him dress. Girirāja: [indistinct aside] [break] Prabhupāda: Give him lesson how to make tilaka. He has come to your shelter. You teach him. [break] Just like a diseased person, if he is a little careless, he is not very strict in following the..., it will take some time.
It is exactly like that. He, because of his material opulences, he thinks that "Oh, where is the disease? This is all right. I am happy." That is the defect.
We have to reduce. That is called tapasya. Not that "Because my tongue is asking me to eat something, therefore I must eat." Not that. That is the difference between ordinary man and gosvāmī.
Gosvāmī means one who has conquered over the dictation of the senses. My sense dictates to do something, but when I am able to dictate the sense, "No, you cannot do it," that is called gosvāmī. [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. [break] Dr.
Prabhupāda: No, Indian. Dr. Patel: African, after all. Americans must be first. [wind interference—indistinct] ...some politically conscious Africans. Prabhupāda: We have got about ten African devotees now in our Nairobi branch.