Category:Enjoying Spirit
Theme Analysis
The "enjoying spirit" is an intrinsic quality of the soul, derived from its source, Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that because God is the supreme enjoyer (puruṣa) and we are His parts and parcels, we naturally possess a minute propensity to enjoy. However, the living entity falls into the material world when this spirit is misdirected—when one tries to imitate Kṛṣṇa and become the enjoyer rather than the enjoyed. In this conditioned state, everyone (whether in a male or female body) acts with the mentality of a puruṣa, thinking "I shall enjoy." This false enjoying spirit is the root of material bondage, driving the soul through 8,400,000 species of life. The cure is not to kill the spirit (which is impossible) but to purify it by utilizing one's senses for the satisfaction of the Supreme Enjoyer.
- Origin in Kṛṣṇa: Our enjoying spirit exists because it exists originally in Kṛṣṇa, the reservoir of pleasure.
- The Puruṣa Mentality: In the material world, everyone thinks they are the enjoyer (puruṣa), regardless of their gender.
- Cause of Bondage: We are entangled because we want to enjoy without Kṛṣṇa.
- The Danger of Association: Viewing objects or people with a spirit of enjoyment is the trap; seeing them as Kṛṣṇa's energy is the liberation.
- False Renunciation: Frustrated materialists often try to become "one with God," which is just another form of the enjoying spirit.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Origin and Misuse of Our Enjoying Spirit.
Subcategories
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Pages in category "Enjoying Spirit"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- In the material world the spirit of enjoyment of the living entities by dint of their own actions gradually fades by the laws of nature, and thus the illusory energy dictates in the ears of the conditioned souls that they should become one with the Lord
- It follows that if the spirit is enjoying, it must have its senses also, otherwise how can it enjoy? The Vedas confirm that the spirit soul, although atomic in size, is the actual enjoying agent
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- Krsna has the propensity for sense gratification. He is the original sense gratifier. It is stated in Bhagavad-gita that Krsna is the supreme enjoyer. Our enjoying spirit exists because it exists originally in Krsna
- Krsna's color is described there (in sastra). Krsna's peacock feather is described there. Krsna's flute is there. Krsna's ever-eternal consort . . . pranaya-keli. In loving mood always, Krsna. He's always in enjoying spirit. So we get idea of Krsna
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- The living entities are encaged in the conditions of material bondage because of their propensity for overlordship. But by engagement in the devotional service of the Lord one becomes detached from this enjoying spirit
- The living entities are not actually enjoyer. They are suffering. They are becoming entangled because by this enjoying spirit we are developing different types of mentality, and at the time of death, according to that mentality, I get the next body
- The living entities come to this material world in the spirit of enjoyment, but because they want to enjoy without Krsna (krsna-bahirmukha haiya bhoja-vancha kare), they suffer birth, death, old age and disease under the control of the illusory energy
- The PG, Sri Krsna, says to Arjuna - O Arjuna! Therefore give up the spirit of enjoying all your worldly work, and through this consciousness become a transcendentalist. You may adopt your circumstantial occupation of warfare, which is a duty for you
- The sense enjoyment spirit has been current a very long, long time, owing to material association. BG 1972 purports
- The soul is sometimes described as purusa because whether one is dressed as a man or a woman, one is inclined to enjoy this material world. One who has this spirit of enjoyment is described as purusa
- The spirit of enjoyment by the living entity in the material world is false
- The young boys and girls of the Krsna consciousness movement have given up the spirit of material enjoyment not because of practice but by the mercy of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His servants
- To see one woman is not dangerous, but to think of enjoying, that is dangerous. Similarly, to see one man is not dangerous, you cannot avoid that; you are on the street here, but to see with the spirit of enjoyment, that is dangerous
- Together there are 8,400,000 varieties of bodies in different planets of the universe, and the living entity is traveling by so many transmigrations according to different modes of enjoying spirit within himself
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- We are behaving with this material world with an enjoying spirit, as our enjoyable things. That is mithya. It is not your enjoyable thing. It is Krsna's enjoyable thing. That is truth. We do not know what is truth
- We are fallen conditioned souls. In this material world we have come with an enjoying spirit. Therefore we are fallen. If one keeps his position rightly, he does not fall. Otherwise he is degraded. That is fallen condition
- When mundaners pretend to give up the enjoying spirit, under the pressure of disappointment and frustration, they usually take shelter of pseudo renunciation, with an even greater spirit of enjoyment