Category:Our Enjoyment (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
Redefining the very nature of pleasure, the spiritual master shatters the illusion of the material world. Conditioned souls constantly try to manufacture personal enjoyment, viewing others through a lens of exploitation and hoarding stolen property. Warning his disciples that seeking personal pleasure inevitably brings suffering, Śrīla Prabhupāda heavily restricts the impulse for sense gratification. He instructs his followers to conquer unnecessary sleeping, see eating as prasada-seva (service, not enjoyment), and understand that marriage is not a mere license for sex. Because a serious practitioner is neither an artificial renouncer nor a material enjoyer, but simply a pure servitor, their entire paradigm must shift. Paradoxically, by abandoning selfish pursuits and seeking only the Lord's satisfaction, the disciples suddenly experience the whole world as full of permanent, transcendental enjoyment through chanting, associating with devotees, and reading the scriptures.
- The Illusion of Enjoyment: Artificially trying to enjoy the temporary material world and stolen property inevitably leads to frustration, suffering, and destruction.
- Conquering the Senses: True spiritual advancement requires conquering the basic urges of eating, sleeping, and mating, utilizing them only for necessity rather than pleasure.
- The Pure Servitor: Devotees reject both artificial renunciation and material exploitation, adopting the joyful, balanced position of a pure servant of the Lord.
- Transcendental Association: The true purpose of a temple is not for bodily comfort, but to facilitate the sublime enjoyment of discussing philosophy, chanting, and dancing together.
- Eternal Bliss: Unlike the fleeting thrills of the material energy, spiritual enjoyment found in scripture, service, and pure devotion is permanent and ever-fresh.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Trains His Disciples to Reject Temporary Sense Enjoyment and Taste Eternal Happiness.
Pages in category "Our Enjoyment (Disciples of SP)"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- A book sold becomes a permanent matter for enjoyment. We read the scriptures again and again and it is still fresh. When there is time I go on reading my own books
- As soon as you get time, read. I do that. Reading, writing, or chanting. But when there is no other way, you sleep little. Not to enjoy sleep, but because it is not possible to continue, all right, sleep 1, 2, 3, 4, or five hours. Not more than that
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- I am getting thousands of letters from Western countries, from my disciples, how much transcendental feeling they are enjoying
- I may also inform you that my followers here, who come regularly and enjoy my Keertan and discourses on the Bhagwat Geeta, - are all citizens of America. Whether I may also raise funds from them
- I think it is good to remain financially poor because always we shall be able to pray Krishna, asking His help to execute His service. If all of a sudden we become very strong financially, Maya may dictate us for sense enjoyment
- If you manufacture your program of enjoyment, then you will be slapped. And if you enjoy according to the direction of the father, then you'll enjoy
- In this temple, they are worshiping the Lord, so they are enjoying in this life. In this life they are seeing God, they are feeding God, they are offering prasadam to God, they are eating prasadam, they are chanting, glorifying - Krsna conscious life
- It is called prasada-seva, not "prasada enjoyment"
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- Nobody's here? Where is Nanda Kumara? Sleeping? As soon as there is opportunity, sleep. One has to conquer over sleeping, eating, and sense enjoyment
- Now I am an old man, and am depending on you to carry on our mission more enthusiastically. The seed is already there. Now water it and let it grow and fruit will come out, fruit of love of Godhead, and you will all enjoy, even in this material world
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- Temple is meant for brahmacari and sannyasi, our, mainly, not for grhastha, because they have got inclination to enjoy. To live with wife means enjoyment. They'll have sex. This should be discouraged
- The best thing is to train ourself in this Krsna consciousness, and then it will be possible in this life at the time of death to transfer ourself into the spiritual world and enter into the Krsnaloka and enjoy in the association of Krsna
- The business of Krishna Conscious persons is to enjoy by mutual association on the basis of understanding Krishna from Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam
- There is a nice big hall, exactly suitable for a temple, and the devotees are enjoying the opportunity by chanting there twice, thrice daily
- This rasa is temporary. Your youthful enjoyment will not exist; it will be finished. Your American life will be finished. Your this life, that life, everything will be finished - and finished forever. Not that you are going to have it again
- To live with wife, together as a grhastha, and enjoy grhastha life, at the same time to live in temple, this should be discouraged
- 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
- To the extent we are thinking of Krishna, to that extent Maya has no influence. But as much as we are desiring to forget Krishna and trying to enjoy for ourself, so to that extent we must suffer the pains of Maya
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- We are artificially enjoying the stolen property. Therefore if you go on enjoying like that, then this frustration will come. But before coming to that frustration, if we return this property to Krsna, then we become happy
- We are chanting, we are hearing, we are dancing, we're enjoying. Why? Just to detach our life from all nonsense things and attach to Krsna. This is the process. This is Krsna consciousness
- We are establishing different centers, not for sense enjoyment, but for good association of devotees
- We are neither renouncer nor enjoyer, we are simply servitor of Krishna. Please follow this principle and you will be never disturbed in any frightened condition offered by the maya
- We can enjoy taking prasadam of Krsna, because He is the proprietor, bhokta, enjoyer. So everything should be given first to Krsna, and then you take the prasadam. That will make you happy
- We must be educated how to control the senses, how to control the senses. Therefore while eating, we are reminded that this eating is... If you do not take it as prasadam, then eating is sense enjoyment
- When one is factually experiencing existence of pure spiritual service to Krsna, he enjoys fullness of eternal life full of bliss and knowledge