Transform your senses' engagement from satisfying yourself to satisfying Krishna; this change of interest cures all material disease.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.33 — August 14, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740814SB-VRNDAVAN [26:27 Minutes] SB-01.05.33_740814SB-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: Hmm. āmayo yaś ca bhūtānāṁ jāyate yena suvrata tad eva hy āmayaṁ dravyaṁ na punāti cikitsitam [SB 1.5.33] Is very important verse. Actually, this is the essence of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. What is that? People become diseased by sense gratification.
Everyone knows. Too much sense gratification means creating disease. For example, some nice eatable. But if you, because it is very nice rasagullā, therefore I shall devour one dozen, that's not very good.
That will create indigestion immediately. So in this material world, people are so much enthusiastic in the matter of sense gratification. Whole world—not only now—this is the place for competition of sense gratification. Advancement of civilization means, the so-called civilization, material civ..., means how much you are able to gratify your senses.
That is civilization. How much you are given facilities to gratify your senses. This is the modern idea: hedonism. More eat, more drink—eat, drink, be merry and enjoy.
Sense gratification. This is not only new. Formerly, the Cārvāka Muni, he also advocated, ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet. In India, they want to eat very nice foodstuff prepared from ghee.
So he advised that ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet: even you have no money, then beg, borrow or steal, get ghee and eat very nice. Ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā, the word is... Suppose one has no money, then how to get money? Either cheat somebody, beg..., or beg. But begging for gṛhastha is not very good thing, but sometimes they do so, beg, borrow or, promising, "Give me now money.
I shall pay you." And when credit is lost, then steal, pickpocket. This is as theory. Similarly, Cārvāka Muni, ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet, "Never mind." "No, I will have to pay." "No, that we shall see later on, never mind." "No, I will be sinful, I will have to pay next life." This is within the blood of every Indian, that if I cheat you or if I take some money from you without your benefit, without repayment, then I will have to suffer. Still in India they believe this. There are some incidences that a man...