Category:Desiring God
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the supreme necessity and absolute nature of desiring God. While materialistic people desire wealth, fame, or promotion to heavenly planets, and impersonalists desire the void of liberation (which Śrīla Prabhupāda calls the subtlest type of atheism), the pure devotee desires nothing but the eternal loving service of the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that it is impossible to artificially kill all desires; true desirelessness (anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam) means emptying the heart of material motives and replacing them with a singular, unalloyed desire to associate with and satisfy Kṛṣṇa. When one develops this pure desire, the Lord perfectly fulfills it by granting His association and pure bhakti-yoga.
- The True Meaning of Desirelessness: Becoming desireless does not mean becoming inert like a stone; it means giving up inferior material desires and consciously desiring the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord.
- The Illusion of Impersonal Liberation: Desiring to merge into the impersonal Brahman is not true liberation but a subtle form of atheism and lust (kāma) disguised as spirituality.
- Transforming Lust into Pure Love: Worldly affection and ambitions are merely different phases of sense gratification. When this desire is redirected toward pleasing Kṛṣṇa, it is transformed into pure devotional service.
- The Pure Devotee's Only Ambition: Unalloyed devotees seek absolutely nothing for their personal benefit; their sole, unwavering desire is to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead through transcendental loving service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Transforming Lust into Love by Desiring God.
Pages in category "Desiring God"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- Although the Pracetas desired to see the Lord to their full satisfaction, the Lord left. According to Srila Jiva Gosvami, this is an exhibition of His kindness to innumerable other devotees. Although He was being attracted by the Pracetas, He left
- Arjuna was refusing to fight, but he was told that he should fight and at the same time desire the Supreme Lord. Then he would be happy. BG 1972 purports
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- Dasya-rasa, or dasya-bhakti-rasa, is described in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (3.2.3-4): When according to his desires the living entity develops love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, this beginning stage of love is called dasya-bhakti-rasa
- Desireless means, therefore, not to be inert like the stone, but to be conscious of one's actual position and thus desire satisfaction only from the Supreme Lord
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- If one at all desires to have the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then he must take to devotional service. BG 1972 purports
- In bhakti-yoga the devotees desire nothing but Krsna. The pure bhakti devotee does not desire promotion to heavenly planets, nor does he seek salvation or liberation from material entanglement. BG 1972 purports
- Instead of desiring to have the Lord come here and become one's son, one should desire to become free from all material desires (anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11)) and go back home, back to Godhead
- It is imperative that one accept a spiritual master if he at all desires to gain the favor of the Lord. The service of the spiritual master is essential
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- One must develop the desires for returning back home, back to Godhead, and automatically the desires for material gain, material honor and material popularity will diminish in proportion to the development of devotional service
- One of His younger brothers, Laksmanaji, desired to go with Him, and so also His eternal wife, Sitaji, desired to go with Him. The Lord agreed to both of them, and all together they entered the Dandakaranya Forest, to live there for fourteen years
- Only when the mind is free from designations can one desire the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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- The desire to merge into the impersonal Brahman is the subtlest type of atheism. As soon as such atheism, disguised in the dress of liberation, is encouraged, one becomes completely unable to traverse the path of devotional service to the SP of Godhead
- The Ganges River is known by many names, such as the Bhagirathi and the Jahnavi. It purifies Dhruvaloka and the planets of the seven sages because both Dhruva and the sages have no other desire than to serve the Lord's lotus feet
- The Pandavas were so malleable to the will of the Lord that they could sacrifice any amount of energy for the service of the Lord, and by such unalloyed determination they could secure the Lord's mercy in any shape they desired
- The so-called affection for family, society, country, etc., consists of different phases of sense gratification. When this desire is changed for the satisfaction of the Lord, it is called devotional service
- To try to stop desires is impossible. One has to desire the Supreme in order not to be entangled in inferior desires. Jnanis maintain a desire to become one with the Supreme, but such desire is also considered to be kama, lust