Category:Able to Enjoy
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda contrasts the futile attempt to enjoy in the material world with the reality of spiritual enjoyment. In material life, no one is actually able to enjoy because death is inevitable and the body is like a disease. Just as a diseased man cannot enjoy food, a conditioned soul cannot enjoy the senses fully. Figures like Napoleon or Rāvaṇa tried to enjoy by conquering or stealing, but they were ultimately ruined. True enjoyment comes only when the senses are cured through purification (tapasya). When one is spiritually healthy, they are able to enjoy unlimited transcendental bliss. This is the goal of Kṛṣṇa consciousness: not to stop enjoyment, but to cure the disease so that real, eternal enjoyment becomes possible.
- The Disease of Material Life: A diseased man cannot enjoy life; similarly, the living entity covered by the material body is unable to enjoy fully because of the temporary and miserable nature of material existence.
- No Guarantee of Enjoyment: People work hard for skyscrapers, families, and bank balances, but there is no guarantee they will be able to enjoy them due to sudden death or karma.
- The Result of Purification: By undergoing penances (tapasya) and purifying existence, one becomes able to enjoy unlimited transcendental bliss, as stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
- False Enjoyment vs. Real Enjoyment: Trying to enjoy God's property (like Rāvaṇa) leads to ruin. Real enjoyment is spiritual, where even feelings of separation (like the gopīs) are a source of bliss.
- Curing the Senses: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not about killing the senses but curing them. Once cured, the senses can be engaged in the service of the Lord, allowing the living entity to enjoy eternal life.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Unlimited Bliss - Being Able to Enjoy Spiritually.
Pages in category "Able to Enjoy"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- First of all, you have to die. You may manufacture some so-called ananda, but you'll die. Now, suppose we are dancing here, and if we understand that immediately death will take place, then we shall not be able to enjoy the dancing
- For the comforts of life, the so-called comforts of life I shall be able to enjoy, I am forced to work day and night. And I am thinking I am happy. This is called maya
I
- If one wants to continue his association with prakrti, the female energy of Krsna, and be separated from Krsna by the illusion that he is able to enjoy prakrti, he must continue in his conditional life
- In return for Lord Indra's benediction that they would be able to enjoy lusty desires continuously, even during pregnancy for as long as sex is not injurious to the embryo, women accepted one fourth of the sinful reactions
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam also it is said: You should undergo penances in this life by which your existence will be purified, and, as a result, you will be able to enjoy unlimited transcendental bliss. (SB 5.5.1). BG 1972 purports
S
- So senses should be cured, and then you will be able to enjoy. That is our program. We are not stopping sense enjoyment; we are trying to give you real sense enjoyment
- Suppose you are making a very nice house, very nice apartment. There is no guarantee that you will be able to enjoy this family life, house, and everything. Not... Forever, that is no question
T
- The Kurus thought, "The kings of the Kuru dynasty are the emperors whereas the kings of the Yadu dynasty are able to enjoy their land only because we have granted it to them"
- The lady continued, "We cannot estimate how many pious activities were executed by the damsels of Vrajabhumi so that they were able to enjoy the Supreme Personality of Godhead by looking upon the unparalleled beauty of His transcendental body"
- The Lord continued: I am the heart of all sacrifices. You will be able to perform many great sacrifices and also give great charities. In this way you will be able to enjoy the blessings of material happiness in this life
- They are constructing big, big roads, motorcars, and skyscraper building, but there is no assurance that you'll be able to enjoy it
- They perform yajnas and pious activities to go to the heavenly planets. Oh, what is the idea? The idea is that we shall be able to enjoy more, more, more duration of life, more opulence, more money, more beautiful woman, more nice garden
W
- We are accumulating so many things, big, big buildings, big, big estate, big, big bank balance, big, big family. That's all right, but what is the guarantee that we will be able to enjoy this?
- We imitate Krsna, but we are not able to enjoy because we are in this material body
- We living entities, or, say, human beings, we want enjoyment. That's all right. But we are not able to enjoy fully because we are covered by something. This is the thesis
- When Krsna went to the forest with His cowherd boyfriends and cows, the gopis did not physically take part, but their hearts went with Him. And because their hearts went, they were able to enjoy His company through strong feelings of separation
- When the creeper is fixed, then the fruit of the creeper comes into existence, and the gardener who nourished it is able to enjoy this fruit of love, and his life becomes successful
Y
- You give medicine to a diseased man to cure him just to make him able to enjoy senses. That's all. But Krsna consciousness movement is that you give him medicine so that he can get out of the clutches of this material entanglement
- You have no experience. In India we have got experience. Each and every monkey has got at least hundred girls with him. Hundred, one hundred. So what we able to enjoy?