Category:Attachment for Sense Gratification
Theme Analysis
The deeply rooted infatuation of the conditioned soul with material sensory experiences, known as viṣaya-āsakti, represents the fundamental psychological knot that perpetuates cosmic bondage. Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that when the living entity seeks to exploit the temporary manifestations of nature for personal enjoyment, the underlying cognitive faculty undergoes a severe degradation, resulting in a state of compromised spiritual intelligence. This continuous pursuit of bodily pleasure and domestic illusion systematically obscures the soul's relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, plunging the individual into the painful cycle of repeated birth and death. True liberation requires a deliberate reversal of this inward trajectory, initiated by submissively invoking the divine attraction of Madana-mohana to neutralize the lingering allurements of mundane gratification.
- The Nature of Material Entanglement: The illusion of proprietary right and sensual enjoyment inevitably transforms the conditioned living entity into a dedicated servant of material conditioning. This misdirected focus binds the mind to the dualities of bodily existence, making real progress entirely impossible.
- The Degradation of Internal Discrimination: Excessive absorption in material pleasure robs the human intelligence of its capacity to comprehend the structural misery of temporary life. Entangled in this superficial mindset, the individual misinterprets artificial economic advancement as the ultimate purpose of human civilization.
- The Protective Association of Elevated Souls: Breaking the subtle gravity of sensory attachment requires a deliberate shift in one's interpersonal landscape away from materialistic encounters. Regular proximity to self-realized personalities introduces a purifying influence that dissolves the dense ignorance underlying worldly desires.
- The Renunciation of Conditional Licenses: Regular domestic structures are designed to provide a restricted path for satisfying basic material drives under strict scriptural injunctions. However, when the ultimate goal of self-realization is forgotten, these institutional arrangements are easily exploited to justify prolonged spiritual stagnation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Overcoming the Bondage of Illusion by Dissolving Our Attachment for Sense Gratification.
Pages in category "Attachment for Sense Gratification"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
A
- A visayi is one who is attached to family life and is interested only in wife, children and worldly sense gratification
- Anyone who is very much sensuous, very much attached to sense gratification, they are called demon
- As long as one is very much attached to material sense gratification, the worship of the demigods or the worship of one's husband is recommended
- At the present moment human civilization is too much attached to economic development and sense gratification and is therefore nearing the path of ruination
- At the present moment, modern civilization is too much attached to the material way of life, or sense gratification
- Attachment means accepting things for one's own sense gratification, and detachment is the absence of such sensual attachment. BG 1972 purports
B
- Because he (who keeps himself in the mode of goodness) is not attached to the objects of sense gratification, he does not eat more than what he requires, and he controls the activities of his body and mind. BG 1972 purports
- Because we are very attached to sense gratification, we go to God, to the temple or churches, for some economic reasons. Then again, economic development does not mean sense gratification
- Brahmanas who are exalted to the position of Vaisnavas, the most dear servants of Krsna, sometimes dress like madmen. Just to benefit materialists like us, who are always attached to sense gratification, and just to dissipate our ignorance
H
- He (a materially attached person) is generally very greedy, and he thinks that anything attained by him is permanent and never to be lost. Such a person is envious of others and prepared to do anything wrong for sense gratification. BG 1972 purports
- He (Priyavrata) gave up everything, including his wife, with whom he had enjoyed so much sense gratification, and his great and opulent kingdom, and he completely renounced all attachment
- Household life is actually a kind of license for a materially attached person by which to enjoy sense gratification under regulative principles. Otherwise there is no need of entering household life
L
- Last night there was sugar candy here, he said. "Therefore ants are wandering about. Alas, this renounced sannyasi is attached to such sense gratification!" After speaking in this way, he got up and left
- Lord Krsna behaved by His personal example as if He were very much attached to the four principles of civilized life, namely religion, economic development, sense gratification and salvation
M
- Materialistic life means attachment to the body and everything in relationship to the body. This attachment is based on lusty desires for sense gratification, specifically sexual enjoyment
- Money is undoubtedly coming in great quantities, but we should not be attached to this money for sense gratification; every cent should be spent for spreading the Krsna consciousness movement, not for sense gratification
T
- The liberated person has no attachment for anything material or for sense gratification
- The unwanted creepers have been described by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. He states that if one hears and chants without trying to give up offenses, one becomes materially attached to sense gratification
- There are two kinds of materialists. One is attached to women and sense gratification, and the other is simply a nondevotee. On the positive side is association with mahatmas, and on the negative side is the avoidance of nondevotees and women-hunters
- These fruits are auspicious, inauspicious and mixed. He thus becomes attached to religion, economic development, sense gratification and the monistic theory of liberation (merging with the Supreme)
- This is the nature of lusty desires (SB 9.18.39). In Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.20) it is said, kamais tais tair hrta jnanah: when one is too attached to sense gratification, he actually loses his sense. The word hrta jnanah refers to one who has lost his sense
- Those who are asat are very much attached to sense gratification, and the culmination of sense gratification is sex
- Those who are materially attached to women and sense gratification gradually become entangled in material consciousness and suffer the miseries of birth, old age, disease and death
U
- Unfortunately, being overly attached to sense gratification, materialists are not serious in helping this movement. Instead, some of them try to suppress it
- Unfortunately, due to our bad association and great attachment for sense gratification, we do not remember our best friend, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Unfortunately, karmis are very attached to material sense gratification, and they cannot appreciate the miserable condition of material life, neither in this life nor in the next
W
- When one has already ascended to the path of yoga, meditation and detachment are the goals, & when one is no longer attached to working for sense gratification, he gradually becomes free. At that time he also attains a state of ecstasy called yoga arudha
- When one is attached to material sense gratification, he cannot protect his sannyasa order
- When the aim of life - self-realization - is missed by too much attachment for sense gratification, as already discussed herein before, the institution of the varnasrama is utilized by selfish men to pose an artificial predominance over the weaker section