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If he acts whimsically, what is the possibility of the mind being controlled? When the mind

“One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with undeviating determination and faith and not be One should abandon, without exception, all material desires born of mental speculation and thus control thus the mind should be fixed on the Self alone and should think of nothing else. From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self.”

I’m enjoying the wind and snowfall very much,” etc. There are different kinds and grades of living entities, and their conceptions and perceptions of happiness are also of all different types and grades.

one begins to relish the taste of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he begins to see other so-called enjoyments and attainments as flat and tasteless. And if one is situated firmly in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the greatest danger cannot disturb him. We tend to close our eyes to this, and because we are foolish we try to adjust to these dangers. Our attitude will then be: “Dangers come and go – so let them happen.”

An object may seem to us to be no bigger than a point and may seem to have no length or width, but when we perceive it under a microscope we can see that it has both length and width. God is an actual person, and the spiritual spark, being a fragmental part of Him, is also a person. If the father has personality and individuality, the son also has them; and if the son has them, we can So how can we, as sons of God, assert our personality and individuality and at the same time deny them

Within this material universe there are millions and billions of planets floating in space, and we can just imagine how many Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are there. In fact, the whole material universe is likened to a great ocean of misery, an ocean of birth and death In order to cross this great ocean of nescience, a strong boat is needed, and that strong boat is the

A stone, for instance, has no senses and cannot perceive happiness and distress. Developed consciousness can perceive happiness and distress more intensely than undeveloped consciousness

self-controlled yogi, constantly engaged in yoga practice, becomes free from all material contamination and

As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa is the real friend of every living entity, and we have to revive Kṛṣṇa is within us and is waiting for us to turn to Him, but we are too busy passionately eating the This passionate compulsion to enjoy these fruits must stop, and we must situate ourselves in our real

If somehow we can manage to control the senses, we can turn our face to actual spiritual happiness and

In this way the mind is taking us anywhere and everywhere. We have no power over where we are going but can only sit in horror and watch helplessly. We must engage in Kṛṣṇa’s service every moment of our lives in order to keep the restless and turbulent

He is beyond the mode of passion, he realizes his qualitative identity with the Supreme, and thus he

The spirit soul is eternal, and the Supreme Lord is eternal; therefore reciprocation of their loving who is actually intelligent will refrain from the flickering sensual enjoyment of this material body and

Animals do not have really developed intelligence and so cannot enjoy life as a human being can. The hands, the nose, the eyes, the other sense organs, and all the bodily parts may be present on a dead The enjoying energy, the spiritual spark, has left, and therefore the body has no power.

In India there is the story of a man who did not know what sugarcane was and was told that it was very Similarly, we are trying to get happiness and pleasure, but we are trying for them by chewing this material body; therefore there is no happiness and no pleasure.

It is going sometimes this way and sometimes that way.

By Kṛṣṇa consciousness we can gradually develop our real intelligence and naturally enjoy relishing spiritual