Category:Becoming a Controller
Theme Analysis
The root cause of material entanglement is the false ego's desire to emulate the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that everyone in the material world—whether individually, socially, or nationally—is engaged in a futile struggle to become the supreme controller. Foolish speculators and pseudo-mystics even claim to have become God through meditation. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda points out the absurdity of this: if one is truly the supreme controller, how could they fall into a conditioned state in the first place? The reality is that the living entity can never become the supreme controller; we are constitutionally designed to be controlled. The only choice we have is whether to be controlled by Kṛṣṇa through pious activities, or to be controlled by the punishing illusion of māyā through impious activities.
While we cannot control the universe, Vedic culture demands that we become controllers of our own inner world. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that human society requires an educational department to train first-class men—brāhmaṇas—in how to control the mind and the senses. To become a gosvāmī or a dhīraḥ means to achieve this complete internal mastery, remaining entirely undisturbed by material urges. This sense control is the foundation of purity and truthfulness.
The perfection of becoming a controller is seamlessly achieved through the practice of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. By fully engaging the senses in the loving service of the Lord, the senses have no opportunity to be engaged otherwise, and the practitioner automatically becomes jitendriya (a conqueror of the senses). Furthermore, Śrīla Prabhupāda reveals a beautiful spiritual paradox: when a living entity gives up the false ambition to be the supreme controller and instead completely surrenders to satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa becomes bound by that love. Thus, the pure devotee indirectly becomes the controller of the Lord.
- The Illusion of Supremacy: Conditioned souls futilely attempt to become the supreme controller, a position eternally reserved solely for the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Reality of Being Controlled: The living entity must accept being controlled; the choice is simply between the loving guidance of Kṛṣṇa or the harsh dictates of māyā.
- Mastery Over the Senses: True control is internal. A brāhmaṇa or gosvāmī is trained to rigorously control the mind and senses, maintaining absolute purity.
- The Paradox of Love: By giving up the desire to control and fully engaging in devotional service, a pure devotee captures the heart of Kṛṣṇa, indirectly becoming the controller of the Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Becoming a Controller - Mastering Wales Senses and Surrendering to God.
Pages in category "Becoming a Controller"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- A KC person being always situated in the transcendental loving service of God, automatically becomes the controller of the senses. His senses, being always engaged in the service of Krsna, have no chance of becoming otherwise engaged. BG 1972 purports
- A living entity can never become the controller of material or spiritual energies
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- If one engages in devotional service from the beginning of life, he easily attains vairagya-vidya, or asakti, detachment, and becomes jitendriya, the controller of his senses
- Ignorance means dull stone. So if your senses are purified, at least you can know who is God, what you are, what is this world, what is your relationship. These things will be revealed. Not that you can become the supreme controller
- Isvarah, controller. There are many controllers. "Might is right." But nobody is supreme controller. That is not possible. Nobody. Everyone is trying to become the supreme controller, but that is not being possible
- It is certain that a devotee who helps in this endeavor to satisfy the SPG becomes indirectly a controller of the Supreme Lord. Although the Supreme Lord is full in six opulences, He does not feel transcendental bliss without His devotees
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- So this Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying link up our connection with the supreme controller. We do not wish to become the controller. We want to be controlled - but by the supreme controller, not by others
- Some rascals, they are trying to become controller, "By meditation I have become God." But if you are a God, then how you have become dog? This is going on
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- There should be educational department to create first-class men by all these qualities: how to become controller of the mind, how to become controller of the senses, how to become cleansed, bahyabhyantaram, inside clean and outside clean, saucam
- Try to control. Become first-class controller, dhirah. That is called dhirah: not disturbed by any urges
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- We are created as being controlled. So instead of aspiring to become controller, if we remain controlled, that is our natural position
- When one is purified by intelligence, he keeps himself in the mode of goodness. Thus one becomes the controller of the mind and is always in trance
- When one is purified by knowledge, he keeps himself in the mode of goodness. Thus one becomes the controller of the mind and is always in trance. BG 1972 purports