{"id":3777,"date":"2019-05-05T19:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2019-05-05T19:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:27:27","slug":"i-want-to-control-my-lusty-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/i-want-to-control-my-lusty-desires\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to control my lusty desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown-27.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown-27.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Answer to a private email<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pleasure is part of a living being\u2019s nature. Not only in a human body, any soul is attracted to pleasure. It is an essential part of our consitutional identity as a jiva, spirit soul. Just like we need to breath, we need happiness, we can\u2019t not enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The greatest pleasure is found in what we call love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the spiritual world this is called prema, in the material world it\u2019s called kama.<br \/>\nThe first is perfect, eternal, desirable. The second is imperfect, temporary and undesirable.<\/p>\n<p>The first is generated by pure devotional service to the Attractive Lord (Krishna). The second comes from the identification with the unattractive material body.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The are two verses in the Bhagavad-gita 2.62-63, which are a masterpiece of human psycology, that explain how this works.<\/p>\n<p>dhyayato visayan pumsah<br \/>\nsangas tesupajayate<br \/>\nsangat sanjayate kamah<br \/>\nkamat krodho \u2019bhijayate<br \/>\nkrodhad bhavati sammohah<br \/>\nsammohat smrti-vibhramah<br \/>\nsmrti-bhramsad buddhi-naso<br \/>\nbuddhi-nasat pranasyati<br \/>\n\u201cWhile contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.<br \/>\nFrom anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Please read them attentively, with Srila Prabhupada purport, and you\u2019ll understand a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The question you need to ask yourself is: what do I want from my life? If you want material enjoyment, then stop complaining about repercussions. You know there will be, why complaining?<br \/>\nIf you want to be happy, engage yourself in studies and devotional service.<br \/>\nvasudeve bhagavati<br \/>\nbhakti-yogah prayojitah<br \/>\njanayaty asu vairagyam<br \/>\njnanam ca yad ahaitukam<br \/>\nBy rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)<br \/>\n5 may 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to a private email &nbsp; Pleasure is part of a living being\u2019s nature. Not only in a human body, any soul is attracted to pleasure. 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