Category:Our Senses (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category explain the fundamental shift required to achieve spiritual liberation: moving from personal sense gratification to divine service. Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that in the conditioned state, living entities act as slaves to their imperfect senses, leading to endless perplexity and dissatisfaction. Rather than artificially repressing these natural faculties, the actual solution is to completely purify them by actively engaging the body and mind in the service of the Supreme Lord. By changing the goal of life to satisfy Kṛṣṇa's senses, a practitioner naturally attains perfect self-control and the spiritual vision necessary to perceive the absolute truth.
- The True Purpose of the Senses: The perfection of existence and the essence of the bhakti-yoga process is to train the bodily faculties to satisfy the Supreme Lord rather than oneself.
- Slavery to Illusion: Materially conditioned souls constantly labor to serve their own senses, yet this misdirected effort only results in continuous suffering and frustration.
- Purification over Repression: Artificially attempting to stop the senses from acting will always fail; true control is achieved by actively engaging them in practical spiritual duties.
- The Imperfection of Material Perception: The blunt material senses are entirely incapable of perceiving God or understanding absolute knowledge through independent research or physical endeavor.
- Practical Sense Control: True yogis begin their spiritual advancement by regulating basic physical urges, such as controlling the tongue by exclusively honoring prasādam and minimizing unnecessary sleep.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Prabhupāda Trains His Disciples to Satisfy Kṛṣṇa's Senses Instead of Their Own.
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Pages in category "Our Senses (Disciples of SP)"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- Bilvamangala Thakura says liberation means... What is that? Liberation from this material hankering. And what is that material hankering? To satisfy the senses. So these devotees, they are not for satisfying their senses
- By fixing up his mind in Krsna, then he could use all other senses, namely the tongue
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- I am giving them the right information - that service you have to render. But instead of serving your senses, please serve Radha-Krsna, then you'll be happy
- If anyone wants to marry, first of all he must show that he has some earning capacity. Not that "Because there are so many girls, and I marry one to satisfy my senses..."
- If we accept Krsna's instruction, then you are perfect, and if you go on doing something whimsically, then you are suffering. But we prefer to act whimsically according to our dictation of the senses. We do not take the dictation of Krsna
- If you do not satisfy his senses, everyone is free to run away. That you cannot check. You cannot say, accuse somebody. Because here everyone is giving voluntary service. Nobody is servant. So if he doesn't like something, at any moment he can go away
- In our conditioned life we are trying to satisfy our senses, and in our Krsna consciousness life we are satisfying to please Krsna. That is the difference. So my work is not stopped, but the goal of life is changed. That is liberation
- Instead of being a slave of the senses, if one voluntarily becomes the slave of Krishna, or His representative, that is good for him. This is maya, thinking that we are independent
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- Our proper business is to satisfy the senses of Krsna, not our senses. So because we have deviated from our original position, therefore it is always a perplexity of our life
- Our senses are all blunt in the matter of receiving transcendental subject matter, but they are purified in due course of time by constant engagement in the service of the Lord
- Our senses are very strong. Just like we also, Vaisnavas, we first of all try to control the tongue. So yogis also, they try to control the senses, not only tongue, but all other, ten kinds of senses, by that yogic mystic process
- Our senses cannot perceive how He (Krsna) could keep an unlimited number of calves and cows and have unlimited space in which to do so. But this is answered in the Brhad-bhagavatamrta
- Our Vedic process is like that (perfect knowledge). We do not make any research. It is not possible to come to the right knowledge by so-called research, because our senses are imperfect
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- Service you have to render. Either Radha-Krsna or maya, illusion, senses. Everybody is serving to the senses. Is it not? But he's not satisfied. He cannot be satisfied
- Sleep means your gross senses are stopped, but your mind works. Therefore you dream. So if you practice your mind to be engaged in Krsna consciousness, in dream also you'll see that you are preparing prasadam
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- That should be the motto of our life, that "I shall not do anything for my sense satisfaction, but I shall do everything for the satisfaction of the Supreme"
- The only process for perceiving Krishna and His name, qualities, form is our sincere service attitude with our senses
- This Krsna consciousness movement is an art of living by which you will feel your senses are fully satisfied, but you are going to be free next life. This is the nice process. And artificially if you want to stop your senses, you will fail
- This Krsna consciousness movement means to train people to become the topmost yogi. Topmost yogi. Because they have controlled their senses. No meat eating, no intoxication, not even smoking or drinking tea. This is yoga
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- We may take the lesson that in our fight with maya we should not be in a position in which our strength, enthusiasm and senses will be unable to fight vigorously
- 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 our senses will be engaged to satisfy the senses of Krishna, at that time we will have perfect sense gratification, and be free of all distressed condition
- With our present senses, materially covered, it is very difficult to understand Krsna, His transcendental Name, Fame, Form, Pastimes, etc. But if we begin rendering service unto Krsna, then being pleased with our service He will reveal Himself from within
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- You cannot know by your imperfect senses. Our senses are imperfect. Several times we have described in this meeting that our senses cannot realize the Supreme Truth
- You cannot see God by your endeavor because your senses are all nonsense. You have to purify your senses and you have to wait for the time when God will be pleased to reveal Himself before you