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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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By Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you desire . . . just like—concrete example—if I desire a very nice apartment for my personal sense gratification, this is diseased desire. And if I desire a nice, costly temple for Kṛṣṇa, that is purified desire. So desire is there. You are sitting here in a very nice room, very cleansed, very good atmosphere. But this desire is purified desire. And if you require similar room for your sense gratification, that is impure desire.
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[[Vanisource:690208 - Lecture BG 05.17-25 - Los Angeles|690208 - Lecture BG 05.17-25 - Los Angeles]]
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The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not to become void of the senses. The other philosophers, they say that, "You don't desire." We say that we don't desire nonsense, but we desire Kṛṣṇa. Desire is there, but as soon as desire is purified, then I shall desire Kṛṣṇa. When one is desiring only Kṛṣṇa, that is his healthy state. And if somebody is desiring something else, something other than Kṛṣṇa, then he is to be understood in diseased condition.

So diseased condition means contaminated by māyā. This is external. So our philosophy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is not to stop desiring but purify desiring. And how you can purify? By Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you desire . . . just like—concrete example—if I desire a very nice apartment for my personal sense gratification, this is diseased desire. And if I desire a nice, costly temple for Kṛṣṇa, that is purified desire. So desire is there. You are sitting here in a very nice room, very cleansed, very good atmosphere. But this desire is purified desire. And if you require similar room for your sense gratification, that is impure desire.

So desire there must be. But when it is desired for Kṛṣṇa, it is purified desire, and when it is desired for non-Kṛṣṇa, then it is impurified. So those who are desiring for Kṛṣṇa, they are not behind any enjoyment. They are rather in perfect enjoyment. These Kṛṣṇa conscious students, they are desiring for Kṛṣṇa nice prasādam, so they are not bereft. Practically they are enjoying, but it is Kṛṣṇa-ized. Therefore their everything is becoming purified. This is the science.

How it is? Now, it is said here that, "Who is self intelligent, unbewildered, and who knows the science of God." How do you know the science of God? The same example, that this finger, when it is in healthy condition, it serves the whole body. When it is not in a healthy condition it cannot serve. Similarly, we are part and parcel of God, or Kṛṣṇa. When we are engaged in transcendental loving service of God, that is our healthy condition. That is our natural condition. That is our situation in Brahman, ahaṁ brahmāsmi.

This is self-realization. Just like this finger. If it thinks, "I am finger of this body. My duty is to serve this whole body," this is healthy stage. Similarly, when we are fully convinced that, "I am part and parcel of God . . ."

There are many examples. Just like you are American citizen. If you think yourself that, "I am part and parcel of the State . . ." Sometime there is some advertisement that "If you spoil this thing, you must know you are spoiling your own thing, because the State is yours." Similarly, if I know the science of God, if I know science of Kṛṣṇa, then I am . . . my duty is to utilize everything for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa.

Just like the same citizen who is conscious that, "I am part and parcel of this State. I shall see that everything is nicely done for the interest of the State." In Communist State they are very much strict. In other State they are not so much strict, but in Communist State, if you go a little against the State, you are immediately punished.
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