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Nitāi: "The subtle body endowed with the five knowledge-acquiring senses, the five working senses, the five objects of sense gratification, …

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Prabhupāda:

tad etat ṣoḍaśa-kalaṁ liṅgaṁ śakti-trayaṁ mahat dhatte 'nusaṁsṛtiṁ puṁsi harṣa-śoka-bhayārtidām

[SB 6.1.51]

This is called sāṅkhya-yoga, to understand the analytical process of this body. In the Bhagavad-gītā you have learned that,

dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati

[Bg. 2.13]

So with this combination of sixteen elements, within that there is the soul. He is enwrapped in so many wrappers …

So these are our knowledge-gathering senses, and there are working senses, just like hand, leg, the stomach, the rectum, the …

Then, tad etat ṣoḍaśa-kalam liṅgam. Liṅgam means the form. Liṅgaṁ śakti-trayaṁ mahat. Just like we have got this microphone, so …

So the basic principle... We are under these laws of material nature only for our desire. That is the basic …

This body is instrument. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61]. [child making noise] [aside:] Stop this child. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ …

So if one is actually intelligent, then he should consider that "I don't want this lamentation. Why it is forced …

Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmī says, anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Brs. 1.1.11]. You have to make zero all material desires. Anyābhila-śūnyam means zero. So zero, …

We have desires, many types of desires, jñāna and karma. Karma platform is foolishness. Just like everywhere they are very …

So our first business is that if we want to stop this repetition of birth and death---and sometimes we are …

So the problem, the whole problem of the material world, can be solved only when we purify our desires. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ …

The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means that we are trying to educate people to change the consciousness. We have got so …

So if we want to avoid the tiresome, troublesome, miserable condition of this material world, then we have to accept …