Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.26

By Bhakti One Develops Viraga (Distaste for Sense Gratification) – Devotee Sees Krishna Everywhere Through Premanjana

📅 November 26, 1974 📍 Bombay ⏱ 39 min
Through loving devotion, one develops distaste for sense gratification and perceives Krishna everywhere in all His creation.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.26 — November 26, 1974, Bombay 741126SB-BOMBAY [39:16 Minutes] SB-03.25.26_741126SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: "Thus consciously engaged in devotional service in the association of devotees, a person gains distaste for sense gratification, both in this world and in the next, by constantly thinking about the activities of the Lord. This process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the easiest process of mystic power. When one is actually situated on that path of devotional service, he is able to control the mind." Prabhupāda: bhaktyā pumāñ jāta-virāga aindriyād dṛṣṭa-śrutān mad-racanānucintayā cittasya yatto grahaṇe yoga-yukto yatiṣyate ṛjubhir yoga-mārgaiḥ [SB 3.25.26] So the whole process of understanding the Absolute Truth... Absolute Truth means the Supreme Person, the Supreme Being, Absolute.

There is no contradictory. Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's name, Kṛṣṇa's form, Kṛṣṇa's activities, Kṛṣṇa's paraphernalia, Kṛṣṇa's attributes—everything Kṛṣṇa. That is called Absolute Truth. There is no difference.

Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's form is not different. Kṛṣṇa's hand and Kṛṣṇa's leg, not different. Just like we have got difference: this left hand is different from the right hand; the nose is different from the ear. We have got.

Because this is called sagata-vigata-vibheda[?]. Kṛṣṇa hasn't got that thing. That is called absolute. It is stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā, aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti.

Aṅgāni, we have got different parts of the body, limbs, for different purposes. But Kṛṣṇa can serve any purpose from any limbs of His body. Kṛṣṇa can eat by seeing only. Kṛṣṇa can go by thinking only.

There are so many description that Kṛṣṇa is absolute. So these contradictory things, how one can understand of the Absolute? He is absolute, advaya-jñāna. Absolute means no duality; everything is one. So virāga, bhaktyā pumāñ jāta-virāga aindriyād.

Here our material disease is that we want to satisfy our sense. This is material life. The whole material civilization is going on, we have repeatedly said... Advancement of civilization means advancement of sense gratification.

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