satisfying material desires

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Dear Mahaprabhu Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga. Please accept the blessings of

Sri Sri Radha madhava, Sri Sri Prahlad Narasimhadev, Sri Pancha Tatva.

 

>I am hoping to become wiser by your input, realizations and corrections.

 

Thank you for quoting from the Srimad Bhagavatam about satisfying material

desires. How to deal with lust/agitation in the heart

 

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructs to clean the heart by chanting the

holy names of the Lord. But, this chanting must be offenseless without which

there will not be much effect.

 

Also Rupa Gosvami explains in Bhaktirasamrita Sindhu that devotional service

(Bhakti) can vanquish all material desires and one can reach the lotus feet

of Lord Sri Krishna. So this devotional service should be unmotivated.

 

We read all the sastra and we speak about it. But we don't exactly do pure

devotional service.

 

You have quoted this:-

 

UNLESS ONE FULLY SATISFIES THESE LUSTY DESIRES IN YOUTH, THERE IS A CHANCE

OF ONE'S BEING DISTURBED IN RENDERING SERVICE TO THE LORD. We have actually

seen that many sannyasis who accept sannyasa prematurely, NOT HAVING

SATISFIED THEIR MATERIAL DESIRES, fall down because they are disturbed.

Therefore the general process is to go through ghrasta life and vanaprastha

life and finally come to sannyasa and devote oneself completely to the

service of the Lord."

 

Srila Prabhupada further states in the purport:-

Maharaj Yadu was ready to accept his father’s order and exchange youth for

old age because he was confident that the youth taken by his father would be

returned. But because this exchange would delay his complete engagement in

devotional service, he did not want to accept his father’s old age, for he

was eager to achieve freedom from disturbances. Moreover, among the

descendants of Yadu would be Lord Krishna.THEREFORE, BECAUSE YADU WAS EAGER

TO SEE TEH LORD'S APPEARANCE IN HIS DYNASTY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, YADU

REFUSED TO ACCEPT HIS FATHER'S PROPOSAL. This was not irreligious, however,

because YADU'S PURPOSE WAS TO SERVE THE LORD...

 

.... He was like the four Sanakas (catuh-sana), who refused the order of

their father, Brahma, for the sake of a better cause. Because the four

Kumras wanted to engage themselves completely in the service of the Lord as

brahmacaris, their refusal to obey their father’s order was not irreligious.

 

 

As long as we have this material body, the senses want to enjoy material

sense gratification until death. But, this senses are compared to venomous

snakes which kill the person. We, should not feed snakes milk and bananas.

It simply incresase the poison.

 

Your Servant,

Mukunda Das