GRATIFICATION OF SENSES

                                                

Dear Readers’

This article is in regard with to inform everyone “What is the purpose of our life in a body of human being”.

Does anyone has really thought about this?

Everyone is today’s life wants to have lots of money, girlfriend in adolescence age, wants to party everytime. But is this actually for which we are born for. There are 83,00,000 species of life and simply as we change our clothes daily, similarly we are changing our bodies on the basis of our consciousness at the time of death. This is vicious circle of birth and death and we all are trapped in this.

The body is composed of senses, and the senses are always hungry after their objects. The eyes see  a beautiful person and tell us, “Oh, there is a beautiful girl, a beautiful boy. Let’s go see.” The ears are telling us, “Oh, there is very nice music. Let us go hear it.” The tongue is saying, “Oh, there is a very nice restaurant with palatable dishes. Let us go.” In this way senses are dragging us from one place to another, and because of this we are perplexed (confused).

Indriyanam hi caratam

Yan mano nuvidhiyate

Tad asya harati prajnam

Vayur navam ivambhasi

“As a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man’s intelligence.” (Bg. 2.67)

It is imperative that we learn how to control the senses. The name gosvami is given to someone who has learned how to master the senses. Go means “senses,” and svami means “controller”; so one who can control the senses is to be considered a gosvami.

Adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram punah punas carvita carvananam :

Life after life, people are simply trying to enjoy their senses. Life after life, the same thing over and over again. The same eating, the same sleeping, the same sexual intercourse and the same defending either as a man or dog.

Punah punas carvita carvananam :

Again & again chewing the chewed. Whether you become a demigod or a dog in the material world everyone is given the facilities for these 4 things : eating, sleeping, having sexual intercourse and defending.

Visayah Khalu sarvatah syat

Visayah means the facilities for sense enjoyment.

Our process is visaya chadiya se rase majiya : One has to give up this unsatisfying material enjoyment and relish transcendental bliss, the taste of spiritual enjoyment.

Matir na Krsna paratah svato va :

Those who are befooled by material sensual enjoyment cannot become Krishna consciousness, by their own endeavour or even by instruction from a spiritual master.

Srimad Bhagavatam says, Kandutivam manasijam visahata dhirah :

A man who is dhira, sober and sane, tolerates this itching sensation of sex desire. One who can tolerate this itching sensation of sex desire saves so much trouble, but one who cannot is immediately implicated.

Srimad Bhagavatam says, The consciousness of these rascals and fools cannot be turned towards the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna who acts wonderfully, until they touch their heads to the lotus feet of a devotee of the Lord who is Niskincana, who has nothing to gain in this material world and is simply interested in Krishna. The dust of the lotus feet of a great devotee can help you.

TRUE STORY

Ajamil was the son of a devout devotee of Vishnu. But , unlike his holy father, Ajamil was lazy and wasted his time in sinful activities.

One day, his father sent him to the nearby forest to pluck flowers. There a beautiful tribal woman, accompanied by her lover, saw the handsome Ajamil and fell in love with him. She approached him and expressed her wish to be his wife. Ajamil who was equally charmed by her beauty also agreed to marry her and soon they were married.

Ajmil returned home with his bride. Shocked, his father rejected her saying that she had sinned. A heated argument followed between Ajamil and his father after which he threw the old man on the ground and asked him to leave the house. Many years passed and Ajamil's sins only increased day by day. He drank heavily and gambled in bad company.

Ajamil's wife bore him ten sons. The youngest, called Narayana was the most loved of them all.

Ajamil slowly became poor in health and took to his bed. Frail and ailing, he saw Yama's two messengers by his bedside. Startled, he shouted his son Narayan's name. Vishnu who is called Narayana heard the plea and responded.

He immediately sent his men to tell Yamraj to delay Ajamil's death. Yamraj agreed.

Meanwhile Ajamil thanked Vishnu for saving his life and drowned himself in prayers. He gave up all corrupt activities and became a pious man.

In Nutshell, we should try to make ourselves Krishna conscious in or der to get freedom from the vicious circle of birth, death, old age and disease and renunciation of leaving simply a life who main motive is feeding the body and not the body.

If we become Krishna conscious, then at the time of death we recognize Lord Krishna & we certainly abode in Krishnadham with Krishna and are released from the sufferings of this material world.