K��Ša’s gop…s

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"If my mind is concentrated on the beauty of KŠa I can see these beautiful

girls as KŠa’s gop…s."

 

 

 

Devotee: Verses 27 and 28. “Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping

the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the

inward and outward breaths within the nostrils—thus controlling the mind,

senses and intelligence, the transcendentalist becomes free from desire,

fear and anger. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated.”

Prabhup€da: Now here is a hint of the yoga practice, shutting out the

external sense objects. This is another process. But the bhakti-yoga process

is automatically yoga process. Here it is said, “shutting out all external

sense objects.” Sense object, what is that sense object? Just like I want to

see some beautiful woman or beautiful man. I want to smell some nice flower

or scent. The flower is the sense object, woman is the sense object. There

are so many sense objects. We have got five senses and there are five

objects also. Otherwise what is the use of sense? Now this yoga practice is

to withdraw the senses from the sense object. But the bhakti-yoga process is

that if I do not like to see artificially the beauty of woman or man, if I

try to see the beauty of KŠa, naturally my, this propensity of seeing

beautiful man or woman becomes extinguished. You do not require to shut your

eyes. There are so many beautiful girls sitting. I do not require to shut my

eyes. If my mind is concentrated on the beauty of KŠa I can see these

beautiful girls as KŠa’s gop…s. That is another vision. So artificially if

I close my eyes and if some beautiful girl is in my imagination even after

closing my eyes here, what is the use of closing your eyes?

So by force you cannot control the senses.

 

 

Bhagavad-g…t€ 5.26-29

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New York, September 1, 1966