Category:God Is The Master of the Senses
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is Hṛṣīkeśa, the ultimate proprietor and master of all senses. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the profound Sanskrit definition of devotional service (hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam): pure bhakti means engaging one's purified senses in the service of the master of the senses. While the conditioned soul is a servant to their own material senses, dragged here and there by the dictates of lust and illusion (māyā), the Supreme Lord remains completely independent and transcendental, possessing perfect spiritual senses. The path of spiritual realization does not require artificially stopping one's activities or destroying the senses, but rather dovetailing them. By actively and voluntarily using the mind and the ten senses to satisfy Bhagavān, the living entity is purified and attains the highest perfection of life.
- The Meaning of Hṛṣīkeśa: The name Hṛṣīkeśa combines hṛṣīka (senses) and īśa (master). God is the original creator and ultimate owner of both our material bodies and our senses.
- The Definition of Bhakti: Devotional service is not a mindless sentiment or an artificial cessation of work. It is the practical, dynamic engagement of one's senses for the pleasure of the supreme proprietor of the senses.
- Illusion vs. Devotion: Utilizing the senses for one's own personal gratification is the very definition of māyā (illusion), whereas utilizing them for the master's gratification is the definition of bhakti.
- The Controller and the Controlled: The Supreme Lord is the absolute master of the senses and is never subjected to their demands. In contrast, the conditioned living entity is hopelessly controlled by their senses until they surrender to Hṛṣīkeśa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Master of the Senses - The Supreme Hrsikesa.
Pages in category "God Is The Master of the Senses"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- Bhakti does not mean stop your work. Bhakti does not mean sentimental fanaticism. That is not bhakti. Bhakti means to engage all your senses for the satisfaction of the proprietor of the senses. That is called bhakti
- Bhakti means engaging all the senses in the service of the master of the senses, Hrsikesa
- Bhakti means when you engage your senses for the service of the master of the senses, Hrsikesa. That is called is bhakti. Bhakti is not sentiment
- Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all the senses. When the spirit soul renders service unto the Supreme, there are two side effects
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- He (God) is transcendental to all material afflictions because He is full with all six opulences, namely wealth, power, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation, and thus He is the master of the senses
- Hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate: (CC Madhya 19.170) bhakti, devotional service, simply means engaging our senses (hrsika) in the service of the master of the senses - hrsikesa
- Hrsikesa-sevanam. Not hrsika-sevanam. Hrsika means senses. So when senses are used for sense gratification, that is maya. And when senses are used for the gratification of the master of the senses, that is called bhakti. A very simple definition
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- Karanabdhisayi Visnu (Maha-Visnu) is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and He is the master of eternal time, space, cause and effects, the mind, the elements, the material ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form of the Lord
- Karanarnavasayi Visnu is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, & He is the master of eternal time, space, cause & effects, mind, the elements, the material ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form of the Lord, Garbhodakasayi Visnu
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- My (Laksmi's) dear Lord, You (Kamadeva) are certainly the fully independent master of all the senses. Therefore all women who worship You by strictly observing vows because they wish to acquire a husband to satisfy their senses are surely under illusion
- My Lord, as the supreme directing Deity known as Aniruddha, You are the master of the senses and the mind. I therefore offer my obeisances unto You again and again
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- The devotees of the Lord do not try to deny the senses of the Lord, nor do they artificially stop the actions of the senses. But they do voluntarily engage the purified senses in the service of the master of the senses, as was done by Arjuna
- The ignorant man forgets that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is known as Hrsikesa, or the master of the senses of the material body. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord is called Hrsikesa, for He is actually the proprietor and ultimate master of the senses
- The Lord is the supreme master of all the senses, whereas the conditioned soul is controlled by the senses. The Lord is the greatest, whereas the living entity is the smallest
- The Supreme Lord is also known as Hrsikesa, master of the senses, which indicates that our senses and sense objects are formed by the Supreme Lord. He can control our senses and out of His mercy engage them in the service of the master of the senses
- The Supreme Lord, being the supreme possessor of spiritual senses, is the master of the senses, Hrsikesa. Hrsika means the senses, and isa means the master. The Lord is not the servant of the senses
- There are eleven senses: five senses gathering knowledge and five senses working, and mind is the center. So mind is also accepted as sense. When your purified senses are applied in the service of the master of the senses, Hrsikesa, that is called bhakti
- They (devotees of God) think that they can speak only what they are induced to speak by the Supreme Lord, the master of the senses