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Tongue is the greatest enemy. If you cannot control your tongue, then you cannot control your other senses

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"Tongue is the greatest enemy. If you cannot control your tongue, then you cannot control your other senses"

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As soon as your tongue is controlled, become purified, all other senses becomes automatically purified. Tongue is the greatest enemy. If you cannot control your tongue, then you cannot control your other senses.


Hṛṣīkeṇa-hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam (CC Madhya 19.170). Actually the proprietor of the senses is Kṛṣṇa. We have got this hand, but it is given to us. Actually it is the hand of Kṛṣṇa. He is all-pervading. Sarvato 'pāṇi pādas tat: "Everywhere, His hands and legs are there." You'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā (Bg 13.14). So therefore these hands and legs which we have got, this is Kṛṣṇa's hands and legs. So when these Kṛṣṇa's hands and legs will be engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa, that is the perfection. That is . . . the perfection. If our, our senses . . . just like we used to . . . we like to use our senses for own satisfaction, similarly . . . but actually the senses are not ours, it is Kṛṣṇa's. Hṛṣīkeṇa-hṛṣīkeśa (CC Madhya 19.170).

Therefore Arjuna addressed Kṛṣṇa in the battlefield, "Hṛṣīkeśa." Hṛṣīkeśa. The significance of this word is, "My dear Kṛṣṇa, You are Hṛṣīkeśa. You are sitting in my heart, and You are the master of my senses. So I personally cannot understand what is the benefit of this fighting, but You give me direction and use my senses as You like. That's all." He was not inclined to fight, but he surrendered his senses and mind, everything. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

So sevonmukhe jihvādau. Jihvā. Jihvā means the tongue. The tongue has got two business: to articulate, vibrate; and to taste. Taste Kṛṣṇa-prasādam, and articulate, chant, vibrate Hare Kṛṣṇa. Then as soon as your tongue is controlled, become purified, all other senses becomes automatically purified. Tongue is the greatest enemy. If you cannot control your tongue, then you cannot control your other senses. And therefore we prohibit, "Not these . . ." They are all concerned to the tongue: intoxication-tongue and meat-eating-tongue. So, intoxicant. . . tongue dictates, "Oh, my tongue is becoming dry. Let me drink something or smoke something."

So if you can control, if you become controller of your tongue, "No", then you become svāmī, or gosvāmī. That means the senses do not become your master. You become the master of your senses. Then perfection, gosvāmī. That is . . . go means senses; svāmī means master. So svāmī or gosvāmī, the same thing. So we have to become the master of our senses. That we can become only . . . ourself, we cannot control our senses. If we engage our senses in the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa, then automatically it becomes controlled and purified. Then our life is successful.

Page Title:Tongue is the greatest enemy. If you cannot control your tongue, then you cannot control your other senses
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Created:2015-12-05, 13:56:31
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