There was a time when I wondered about the logic in the statement in BG 2.62 &2.63: 'While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment, lust develops, and from lust, anger arises. From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.'
I would wonder what's the connection between these seemingly disconnected emotions?
Friends, I haven't still understood the exact mechanism of the process, but I can testify to that from personal experience. Back in college days, like most misguided youth, I tried indulging in 'inappropriate' literature and websites. I found myself going through EXACTLY the same sequence of events as mentioned. It was a HORRIBLE experience! I found my mind repeatedly going back to those terrible ideas. I found myself getting increasingly short-tempered, getting enraged at the smallest things. I began to behave in ways I wouldn't have done otherwise. Indulging in pornography DESTROYS our 'Viveka-Buddhi' or sense of Discrimination! I found myself in such a state of acute mental discomfort and restlessness, I couldn't even think straight during my day-to-day events and studies. I was in a state of turmoil at the way I was losing control of my mind and emotions. The mental scars took ages to heal!
It was ONLY the Grace of my Vaishnava Association, some intensive 'Japa-detoxification' and desperate prayers to that ever-forgiving Krishna that saved me from my hellish descent!
That's a lesson for you youngsters out there who may be tempted into viewing pornography! Please don't do it! It seems great and exciting at the beginning, but sickening at the end!
Your eternal servant
Eternal Muser
Well I've tried
yes I've tried
oh I've tried and I've tried
I can't get no
satisfaction
(Mick and the boys)
The senses can't be satisfied so our lusting after things to satisfy them can last almost forever. You might eat until you are no longer hungry but soon you will become hungry again. Some people develop a lust for food and cannot stop eating.
The sense aren't meant to be satisfied in the way that we try and satisfy them. They are meant to be satisfied by devotional service. Yet we continue to believe that we can satisfy ourselves by maximum stimulation.
Doesn't matter how many drugs you take you will ALWAYS want more.
Doesn't matter how much you receive praise, you will ALWAYS want more of it.
Burning like fire they are. Burning to be satisfied in a way that they never can be.
Good one, Antony! And soooo true! Even when I was a kid, I had a guy living inside me called Buster, and all he wanted was chocolate. At the time, my "reward" for keeping Buster in line was that I'd be "skinny". That was THE goal in my youth! So now I'm thinking, maybe Buster is more than just a kid's justification for pigging out -- We all have a "Buster" who keeps us wanting -- food, money, love and sex, all those material "delights". I wonder if anyone (aside from a pure devotee!) who can say they've had enough of any of the above!
no no no, I can't get no..... sa- tis -fac- tion....
How true, perfect song for this... Antony.
Yep, you got it right, you can try, but you won't succeed.
Also, the fire issue, here's another thing about this....
Prabhupad explains that actually, when we attempt to satisfy our senses in this way we are only throwing fuel on the fire...
Thus, causing it to burn even more uncontrollably ....
Until it's literally.... and I'm sure you know this term well:
"The blazing fire of material existence"!!!
Yep....
Fire's burning out of control... doesn't sound fun, does it?
But, we keep on thinking if we just:
Pour A Little More Fuel On It We Can Put It Out!!!
The Cascade-Reaction!
There was a time when I wondered about the logic in the statement in BG 2.62 &2.63: 'While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment, lust develops, and from lust, anger arises. From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.'
I would wonder what's the connection between these seemingly disconnected emotions?
Friends, I haven't still understood the exact mechanism of the process, but I can testify to that from personal experience. Back in college days, like most misguided youth, I tried indulging in 'inappropriate' literature and websites. I found myself going through EXACTLY the same sequence of events as mentioned. It was a HORRIBLE experience! I found my mind repeatedly going back to those terrible ideas. I found myself getting increasingly short-tempered, getting enraged at the smallest things. I began to behave in ways I wouldn't have done otherwise. Indulging in pornography DESTROYS our 'Viveka-Buddhi' or sense of Discrimination! I found myself in such a state of acute mental discomfort and restlessness, I couldn't even think straight during my day-to-day events and studies. I was in a state of turmoil at the way I was losing control of my mind and emotions. The mental scars took ages to heal!
It was ONLY the Grace of my Vaishnava Association, some intensive 'Japa-detoxification' and desperate prayers to that ever-forgiving Krishna that saved me from my hellish descent!
That's a lesson for you youngsters out there who may be tempted into viewing pornography! Please don't do it! It seems great and exciting at the beginning, but sickening at the end!
Your eternal servant
Eternal Muser
I can't get no statisfaction
Well I've tried
yes I've tried
oh I've tried and I've tried
I can't get no
satisfaction
(Mick and the boys)
The senses can't be satisfied so our lusting after things to satisfy them can last almost forever. You might eat until you are no longer hungry but soon you will become hungry again. Some people develop a lust for food and cannot stop eating.
The sense aren't meant to be satisfied in the way that we try and satisfy them. They are meant to be satisfied by devotional service. Yet we continue to believe that we can satisfy ourselves by maximum stimulation.
Doesn't matter how many drugs you take you will ALWAYS want more.
Doesn't matter how much you receive praise, you will ALWAYS want more of it.
Burning like fire they are. Burning to be satisfied in a way that they never can be.
Am I close? Anyone
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Good one, Antony! And soooo true! Even when I was a kid, I had a guy living inside me called Buster, and all he wanted was chocolate. At the time, my "reward" for keeping Buster in line was that I'd be "skinny". That was THE goal in my youth! So now I'm thinking, maybe Buster is more than just a kid's justification for pigging out -- We all have a "Buster" who keeps us wanting -- food, money, love and sex, all those material "delights". I wonder if anyone (aside from a pure devotee!) who can say they've had enough of any of the above!
Woah...
Good Point there Krishnaowned............
( I mean the last one)
Not that the rest aren't also good, but:
I Love The Last One.
Thanks.
Right On...
no no no, I can't get no..... sa- tis -fac- tion....
How true, perfect song for this... Antony.
Yep, you got it right, you can try, but you won't succeed.
Also, the fire issue, here's another thing about this....
Prabhupad explains that actually, when we attempt to satisfy our senses in this way we are only throwing fuel on the fire...
Thus, causing it to burn even more uncontrollably ....
Until it's literally.... and I'm sure you know this term well:
"The blazing fire of material existence"!!!
Yep....
Fire's burning out of control... doesn't sound fun, does it?
But, we keep on thinking if we just:
Pour A Little More Fuel On It We Can Put It Out!!!
: )
Navasi
"Trying to practice yoga
"Trying to practice yoga while engaging the mind in material enjoyment is like trying to ignite a fire while pouring water on it."
-BG purport 6.36