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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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At the present moment, everyone, we are . . . we have made our svāmī, or master, the senses, and when you actually become the master of the senses, then you are svāmī or gosvāmī. That is the significance of svāmī and gosvāmī. It is not the dress. One who has controlling power, one who is not dictated by the senses, one who is not servant of the senses . . . my tongue is dictating, "Please take me to that restaurant and eat sticks." What is that stick, sticks?.
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[[Vanisource:681219 - Lecture BG 02.62-72 - Los Angeles|681219 - Lecture BG 02.62-72 - Los Angeles]]
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Tapasya means I am feeling some inconvenience, bodily, but I am tolerating. That is called tapasya. And this human form of life is meant for that tapasya. Not that because my senses are demanding this satisfaction, I shall immediately offer. No. I shall train myself in such a way that my senses may demand, "My dear sir, give me this facility," I will say, "No. You cannot have." This is called gosvāmī or svāmī.

At the present moment, everyone, we are . . . we have made our svāmī, or master, the senses, and when you actually become the master of the senses, then you are svāmī or gosvāmī. That is the significance of svāmī and gosvāmī. It is not the dress. One who has controlling power, one who is not dictated by the senses, one who is not servant of the senses . . . my tongue is dictating, "Please take me to that restaurant and eat sticks." What is that stick, sticks?
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