sailu 0 Report post Posted February 22, 2007 hare krishna! i often listen that energy gets dissipated when we engage our mind in unholy thoughts...my question is how does the saved energy help us? is it that we get more stamina? or is it like we get brave and uneffected by undesirous effects...or does it help in concentration....or does it gives us power over our sensual gratification....how does this saved energy help us? please elevate me. thanks hare krishna! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
suchandra 1 Report post Posted February 22, 2007 hare krishna!i often listen that energy gets dissipated when we engage our mind in unholy thoughts...my question is how does the saved energy help us? is it that we get more stamina? or is it like we get brave and uneffected by undesirous effects...or does it help in concentration....or does it gives us power over our sensual gratification....how does this saved energy help us? please elevate me. thanks hare krishna! What I start to think of when reading your post is the transformation of matter into spirit by engaging matter in bhakti-yoga, devotional service. Prabhupada gives the example of an iron rod put into fire - gradually this iron rod heats up and at one point this rod does the same like fire, it fully adopted the quality of fire. In the same way our material body, material senses and material mind when engaged in spiritual activity become spiritualized and the quality changes from matter to spirit. As you say the material energy is changed into spiritual energy especially by engaging our material mind to listen to spiritual sound like Hare Krishna, Hare Rama what spiritualizes our whole existence. And the saved energy helps us to do more and more wonderful things for pleasing Krishna. Just like opening one temple after the other and making more and more sleeping souls to wake up from the bodily concept of life. Harinama is the dharma of the Golden Age - 'kali kaler dharma nama sankirtana', and one who preaches that dharma all over the world is empowered with Krishna's energy, Krishna sakti - 'krsna sakti vina nahi tara pravatana' kali-kālera dharma — kṛṣṇa-nāma-sańkīrtana kṛṣṇa-śakti vinā nahe tāra pravartana SYNONYMS kali-kālera — of this age of Kali; dharma — the duty; kṛṣṇa-nāma-sańkīrtana — chanting the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa; kṛṣṇa-śakti vinā — without being empowered by Lord Kṛṣṇa; nahe — is not; tāra — of that; pravartana — propagation. TRANSLATION "The fundamental religious system in the Age of Kali is the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. Unless empowered by Kṛṣṇa, one cannot propagate the sańkīrtana movement. Antya 7.11 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theist 1 Report post Posted February 22, 2007 Perfect answer sucandra. Bhakti is the highest and fullest concentration of energy which is more than mentally concentrated energy as it is composed of love as well as awareness. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sailu 0 Report post Posted February 22, 2007 hare krishna thank u suchandra for helping me understand and clear my doubt. hare krishna! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
