{"id":1242,"date":"2019-09-13T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverursupersoul.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2019-09-13T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T04:49:14","slug":"how-to-derive-maximum-pleasure-from-our-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/how-to-derive-maximum-pleasure-from-our-senses\/","title":{"rendered":"How to derive maximum pleasure from our senses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our senses which are\nmostly uncontrolled are compared to deadly serpents. Just as a bite of a snake\nkills a person similarly the wild senses\nmany a times drive a person crazy to the extent that the person destroys\nhimself<\/strong>. So scriptures ask us to take steps to subdue our senses.  But controlling senses isn\u2019t that simple.\nEven great personalities in the past have been brutally defeated by their\nsenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us take the example\nof sage Viswamitra<\/a>. In dense jungle, in summer, in winter, in rain without food and water\nhe was performing penance for thousands of years<\/strong>.  Menaka, the gorgeous heavenly lady, was asked\nby Indra, the king of heaven, to break the severe penance of the determined\nsage who had totally withdrawn himself from all worldly activities. And she accomplished\nher mission effortlessly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She used a weapon which was extremely lethal and rarely has\nanyone survived its attack<\/strong>.  In that dark forest the cry of the ferocious\nanimals did not frighten the brave sage. \nBut as soon as the sound of Menaka\u2019s tinkling anklet entered his ears,\nhis eyes which till now was absorbed in meditation lustily & frantically\nbegan looking for her and within no time his thousands of years of effort went in\nvain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This incident teaches us that how powerful our senses are,\nhow our senses can make us insane at any moment<\/strong> and how\njust by withdrawing the senses from sense objects may not help us to control\nthe senses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sacred literatures tell\nus that the best way to control our senses is by engaging it in devotional\nactivities. Once our senses get higher\nspiritual taste it won\u2019t then hanker for lower material sensory pleasures<\/strong>\nwhich ultimately open floodgates of misery. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King Ambarish, a great devotee of Lord Krishna, by his own\nexample taught us how each senses can be used in Krishna\u2019s service<\/strong>.  “He fixed his mind on the lotus\nfeet of Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, engaged his words in describing the abode of the Lord, his\nhands in cleansing the temple of the Lord, his ears in hearing the pastimes of\nthe Lord, his eyes in seeing the form of the Lord, his body in touching the\nbody of the devotee, his nostrils in smelling the flavor of the flowers offered\nto the lotus feet of the Lord, his tongue in tasting the tulasi leaves offered\nto Him…” \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam (9.4.18-20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially our senses will resist our efforts to engage\nit in spiritual activities as it will not experience much pleasure in it. It is\nsaid that for a person suffering from jaundice the taste of sugarcane juice is\nbitter. But if he continues taking it as a medicine, he gets cured and in the healthy\nstate he starts enjoying the juice. Similarly, now we are spiritually sick but if we continue taking the medicine of\ndevotional activities our poisonous senses will eventually get purified<\/strong>. And\nin a spiritually healthy state our senses will not make us miserable but will\nrelish being in service of Krishna and giving us unlimited pleasure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our senses which are mostly uncontrolled are compared to deadly serpents. Just as a bite of a snake kills a person similarly the wild senses many a times drive a person crazy to the extent that the person destroys himself. So scriptures ask us to take steps to subdue our senses.  But controlling senses isn\u2019t… <\/p>\n

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