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.