Category:Becoming an Enjoyer
Theme Analysis
This analysis addresses the root cause of the soul's entanglement in the material world: the desire to imitate the Supreme Lord by becoming an enjoyer. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the living entity is constitutionally prakṛti (energy), meant to be enjoyed by the Puruṣa (the Energetic, Kṛṣṇa). However, conditioned souls rebel against this subordinate position and attempt to assume the role of the male, or the enjoyer. This "puruṣa-abhimāna" (conception of being the enjoyer) drives the cycle of birth and death. The analysis also highlights the futility of this attempt, describing it as a "pendulum" swinging between false enjoyment and false renunciation. True liberation is found only when one abandons the spirit of being an owner and accepts the position of being enjoyed by Kṛṣṇa.
- The Origin of False Ego: The material world was created specifically for those who wanted to give up service and become the supreme enjoyer themselves.
- The Puruṣa Syndrome: In the material world, everyone (regardless of gender) tries to be the puruṣa (the master/enjoyer), which is a delusion.
- The Pendulum: Life swings between trying to enjoy (bhoga) and trying to renounce (tyāga). Both are based on the false premise of being the proprietor.
- The Cure: The shift from "I am the enjoyer" to "I am to be enjoyed." This is the mood of the gopīs and the essence of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Imitating the Lord - The False Desire to Become an Enjoyer.
Pages in category "Becoming an Enjoyer"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- A pure devotee has none of the tinges of the above contaminations (becoming a religious man, a rich man, a first-class enjoyer or becoming God himself), which are the influence of material desires, impersonal speculations and attainment of mystic powers
- All these aspirations (becoming a religious man, a rich man, or a first-class enjoyer or becoming God) should be rejected by the prospective devotee who actually wants to revive his dormant love of God
- As soon as one declines to remain subordinate and tries to become an enjoyer, he begins his material conditioning. When he abandons this spirit of being an individual owner or enjoyer, he becomes situated in his liberated state
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- If you simply understand that Krsna is the only enjoyer, then your propensity to become false enjoyer will be vanquished that, "I am not enjoyer. Krsna is the enjoyer." Then there is no question of renunciation
- Influenced by the deluding energy, the living being becomes a false enjoyer under the dictation of the modes of nature
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- Sanandana said, "The personified Vedas sing, 'Due to their (the living entities) own faults they imitate You (Visnu) by trying to become the supreme enjoyer. Thus they disobey Your supremacy and become offenders'"
- Save and except the Lord, no one can be called the enjoyer, but the living entity falsely desires to become the enjoyer. This is the origin of false ego
- So if we simply become renouncer, that will not help us. Then again we shall become enjoyer, so-called enjoyer. That is like pendulum, balancing, tak, tak, this way, this way
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- The conditioned soul has many aspirations such as becoming a religious man, a rich man, or a first-class enjoyer or becoming God himself, or becoming powerful like the mystics and acting wonderfully by getting anything or doing anything
- The distinction between a pure devotee and a karma-misra devotee is this: a pure devotee does not desire anything for material enjoyment, whereas a mixed devotee becomes a devotee to become a first-class enjoyer of this material world
- The enjoyer and the enjoyed both participate in enjoyment, but, deluded by the illusory energy, the living entities want to become the enjoyer like the Lord, although they are not meant for such enjoyment
- The fact is that Sri Krsna Himself becomes the enjoyer of the fruits of the work performed by the transcendentalist
- The gopis said, "As such, we have come to You (Krsna), leaving aside all so-called friends, society and love, and now You have become our enjoyer. Let us be everlastingly enjoyed by You"
- The impure devotee aspires after all of the abovementioned (becoming a religious man, a rich man, or a first-class enjoyer or becoming God) material things by perfection of devotion
- The material world was created for the enjoyment of living entities who wanted to give up the eternal service of the Lord to become the supreme enjoyer themselves
- There is no reason for the living entity's being put into the miserable threefold condition of material existence but that he voluntarily accepts material existence on the false pretext of becoming an enjoyer
- There is only a material world for those who want to imitate the Lord and become enjoyers. Indeed, the material world is nothing but forgetfulness of the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the creator of everything
- This mentality: "How I shall become enjoyer? How I shall possess this?" Krsna-bahirmukha hana bhoga vancha kare. He forgets
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- We cannot imitate the Lord, nor can we become the supreme enjoyer. This is not possible, and when we think it is, we become conditioned by maya
- We may artificially renounce, but again we shall become so-called enjoyers. Such renunciation and enjoyment is like a pendulum that goes this way and that
- We want to be purusa. So some way or other, this condition has come into existence, a false conception of becoming purusa, enjoyer. Then what is the result? The result is that we are trying to be enjoyer life after life, but we are being enjoyed
- When you want to imitate Krsna and want to become enjoyer, then you are sent in this material world. This is material world
- Why is it that a devotee falls down, that he wants to surrender to Krsna and again he falls back to the material world to become a false enjoyer?