the modes and what to do.

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The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kunti,

and because of this the embodied living entity is bound by [the desire to

perform] material fruitive actions[and suffers their concommitnt reactions].

 

PURPORT

 

The mode of passion is characterised by the attraction between man and woman.

Woman has attration for man, and man has attraction for woman. This is called

the mode of passion. And when the mode of passion is increased, one develops

the hankering for material enjoyment. He wants to enjoy sense gratification.

For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honour in

society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice

children, wife and house.

 

These are the products of the mode of passion. As long as one is hankering

after these things, he has to work very hard.

 

Therefore it is clearly stated here that he becomes associated with fruits of

his activities and thus becomes bound by such activities. In order to please

his wife, children and society and to keep up his prestige, one has to work.

 

Therefore, the whole material civilisation is more or less in the mode of

passion. Modern civilisation is considered to be advanced in the standard of

the mode of passion. Formerly, the advanced condition was considered to be in

the mode of goodness. If there is no liberation for those in the mode of

goodness, what to speak of those who are entangled in the mode of passion?

 

Bhagavad Gita 14.7 purport by His divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Prabhupada.

 

Once a man came to speak with Prabhupada in Melbourne and brought his own

secretary who was a woman with a short skirt. She asked why we have shaved

heads. Prabhupada said something like it is better to have warm legs and a cool

head. Kurma prabhu may have the pastime in his book "The great transcendental

Adventure".

 

The point is, Prabhupada really helped us see what the mode of passion really

is, and even more importantly, what we should conclude from this

vision.......serve Krsna instead! Thankyou Srila Prabhupada and all who follow

you.