K��Ša’s gop…s

"If my mind is concentrated on the beauty of K��Ša I can see these beautiful
girls as K��Ša’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 K��Ša, 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 K��Ša I can see these
beautiful girls as K��Ša’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