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Bg 05-22 NY 1966-08-31 Actual Sense Pleasure
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PRABHUPĀDA:
ye hi saṁsparśajā… saṁsparśajā bhogā
duḥkha-yonaya eva te
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ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya
na teṣu ramate budhaḥ
[Bg. 5.22]
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Happiness which is derived by
touch senses, saṁsparśajā…
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Saṁsparśajāḥ means happiness,
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so-called happiness
derived by touch senses.
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Ye hi saṁsparśajā bhogāḥ
[Bg. 5.22]: Enjoyment.
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duḥkha-yonaya eva te
[Bg. 5.22]
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Lord Kṛṣṇa says that
is not real happiness.
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Anything, any happiness,
derived out of touch sensation:
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That is not real happiness.
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Rather, that is the gate
of various miseries.
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The whole Vedic scripture
describes that happiness
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derived of sense perception
out of this body:
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That is not real happiness.
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If we have to enjoy real happiness,
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then we have to transcend
these bodily pleasures.
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Happiness is there
because I am spirit soul.
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Actually I am full of pleasure,
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but because my
sense of happiness
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is being manifested
through this matter.
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Therefore we are being frustrated
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in deriving real pleasure.
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So those who are in the…
advanced in the spiritual life:
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They are called yogis.
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Yoginaḥ.
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ramante yoginaḥ anante
[Cc. Madhya 9.29]
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So those who are
spiritualists, they also enjoy.
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But they enjoy in the real
happiness which has no end.
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Any happiness which is
ended at a certain point:
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That is not happiness.
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That is, rather, source of distress.
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ādy… ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya
na teṣu ramate budhaḥ
[Bg. 5.22]
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Budhaḥ means who is learned.
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A learned person does
not enjoy such flickering
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or trans… transient happiness
which is derived by sense touching.
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śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṁ
prāk śarīra-vimokṣaṇāt
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kāma-krodh…
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kāma-krodhodbhavaṁ vegaṁ
sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ…
[Bg. 5.23]
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Śaknoti…
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Śaknoti means one
who is able to tolerate.
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Ihaiva.
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Ihaiva means in this body.
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And soḍhum.
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Soḍhum means to tolerate.
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Prāk.
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Prāk means before.
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Śarīra-vimokṣaṇāt.
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Before leaving this body,
if one practices that…
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What is… What is that practice?
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Krāma…
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kāma-krodhodbhavaṁ vegam
[Bg. 5.23]
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Vegam means urge.
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Just like sex urge.
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Everyone has got sex urge.
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Or so many things: We
have got some urge.
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Now.
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That Kṛṣṇa advises: That
before quitting this body…
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The example is that
suppose a man is diseased,
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is suffering from a type of disease.
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And doctor has asked him
not to take solid food.
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Now, if he is thinking that…
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Because he is practiced to
take solid food, he is thinking,
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“I must take solid food.
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I must take solid food…”
But if he can tolerate—
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“No, doctor has advised
not to take solid food”—
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if he can tolerate, then he
becomes very easily cured.
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Similarly, sense perception,
sense pleasure, is
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reserved for us in our spiritual life.
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That is actual sense pleasure.
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Here we are having sense pleasure
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artificially through this body.
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Before leaving this body,
if we practice to stop
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sense pleasure as…
as much as possible…
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There is training, of course.
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Without training,
nothing can be done.
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So according to Vedic civilization,
this training was given:
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The student life: Complete
abstinence from sex life.
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Then vānaprastha life:
Complete abstinence.
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And sannyāsa life:
Complete abstinence.
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The whole training
was to abstain, to cure.
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Because…
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The same example:
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In diseased condition we cannot
enjoy the foodstuff which we take.
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When we are healthy, we can
enjoy the taste of the foodstuff.
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So we have to cure.
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We have to cure.
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And how to cure?
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To be in… situated in the transcendental
position of Kṛṣṇa… Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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That is the cure.
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So Kṛṣṇa advises here anyone who is able
to tolerate the urge of sense pleasure.
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So long this body is there, there
will be urges for sense pleasure.
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But we have to mold our life in such a
way that we should be able to tolerate.
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Tolerate.
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That will give us our
advancement in spiritual life,
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and when we are
situated in spiritual life,
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that enjoyment is
unending, unlimited.
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There is no end.
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Similar… Exactly a similar verse is…
is there in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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And in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there…
Ṛṣabhadeva is advising his sons that
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nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke
kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye
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tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattya
śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam
[SB 5.5.1]
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It is very nice verse.
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He says, “My dear boys, this human
form of life…” Na ayaṁ deha.
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Ayaṁ deha means “this body.”
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na ayaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke
[SB 5.5.1]
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Everyone has got body.
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The cats, dogs, hogs, and birds,
beasts, man, human being, demigod:
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Everyone has got this body.
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Material body.
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But he’s especially
advising nṛdeha.
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Nṛ means human form of life.
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He says that this human
form of life is not meant for
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working hard for sense pleasure
just like the hogs and dogs.
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You can find.
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Then what it is meant for?
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He says, tapo divyam.
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One should undergo penance
for transcendental realization.
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And what will be the
result of such penance?
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He says that yataḥ śuddhyet sattya.
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Your existence will be purified.
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And when your existence is purified,
then you enjoy brahma-saukhyam:
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The unlimited spiritual happiness.
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You are hankering after happiness.
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Happiness is your prerogative.
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You must have.
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That is your life.
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You cannot stop happiness.
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But happiness in the diseased
condition is not happiness.
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That we must understand.
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So we have to cure this diseased
condition and then enjoy happiness.
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Then enjoy pleasure
that will be unlimited.
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There will be no end.
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And in the diseased condition…
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Suppose whatever
pleasure we take,
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it is for a few seconds or a few
minutes or a few hours or a few days:
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It will end.
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But real happiness—what is real
happiness: That is unending.
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Brahma-saukhyam anantam.
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Anantam means unending.
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So we are meant for
unending happiness.
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So Kṛṣṇa advises here that
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śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṁ
prāk śarīra-vimokṣaṇāt
[Bg. 5.23]
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Before quitting this material body,
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if one practices to tolerate the
so-called urges of sense pleasure,
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then he becomes very
happy at the long run.
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He recommends it.
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And that is the real purpose
of human form of life.
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That we should not derive.
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We should not try to
derive that false happiness
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in this diseased
condition of material life.
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This is temporary.
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That is not happiness.
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We should understand
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and out of ignorance we are engaged
to derive such kind of happiness,
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but that is not happiness.
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Real happiness is in spiritual life.
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We have to attain that spiritual life,
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and just [like] a man tolerates
so many things for being cured,
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similarly we have to
practice tolerance.
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Then there… There will
be urges, certainly,
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because we are practiced
to these sense urges
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for so many births in so
many evolutionary process.
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Now in this human form of
life we have to consider that,
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“I am not this body;
I am spirit soul.”
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So I have to search out the
happiness of the spirit soul,
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and for that, I have to train
myself under superior guidance,
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as Arjuna has put himself
under the guidance of Kṛṣṇa.
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yo ’ntaḥ-sukho ’ntar-ārāmas
tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ
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sad yogī brahma-nirvāṇaṁ
brahma-bhūto ’dhigacchati
[Bg. 5.24]
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One who is aspiring after that
transcendental happiness
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which is called brahma-sukha.
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Brahma-sukha.
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One who is yaḥ antaḥ-sukha:
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That brahma-sukha is within.
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That brahma-sukha is not without.
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yaḥ antaḥ-sukhaḥ antar-ārāmaḥ
[Bg. 5.24]
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And… And is happy and
satisfied by enjoying within.
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antaḥ-sukhaḥ antar-ārāmas
tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ
[Bg. 5.24]
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And who is trying to
find out the brahmajyoti,
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the effulgence of Brahman within.
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sad yogī brahma-nirvāṇam
[Bg. 5.24]
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That yogi is already
situated in Brahman.
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Nirvāṇam means ending all
this material contamination.
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brahma-bhūto ’dhigacchati.
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And he becomes a realized
soul or the brahma-antaḥ.
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labhante brahma-nirvāṇam
ṛṣayaḥ kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ
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chinna-dvaidhā yatātmānaḥ
sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ
[Bg. 5.25]
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Now, Kṛṣṇa says
that, kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ.
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Kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ: One… One who is able
to reduce the reaction of all sinful life.
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We must know it that this material
existence, either in any form,
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they are all reactions
of our sinful life.
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That we must know.
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So in any condition,
it does not matter
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that a highly advanced person,
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educated, learned, rich, or
beautiful, or anyone—more or less,
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according to degree,
they are all enjoying
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or suffering the reaction
of their past karma.
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And, more or less, all the world,
they are considered to be sinful.
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So kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ.
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Kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ means
those who are trying to
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reduce the reaction
of sinful activities.
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How?
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That by practicing
that sense control.
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Sense control .
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Practicing on sense control.
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Just like a diseased person.
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By controlling…
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Be controlling according to
the prescription of the doctor:
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By controlling himself he becomes
reduced in the sufferings of the disease.
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The fever diminishes
from 105 degrees to 102,
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then 100… 100, then
99, then 98; he is cured.
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Similarly, we have to
reduce the temperature.
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We haven’t got to
increase the temperature.
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We are just like in the matter
of increasing our temperature.
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We are thinking that by increasing
the temperature we shall be happy.
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We do not know that by increasing
temperature we shall never be happy.
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We have to decrease
the temperature. [splice]
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Thank you very much.
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