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[[Category:Wants of a Devotee of God]]
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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Devotee: A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of the whole without self-interest. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no desire for self-satisfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. And thus he is the perfect sannyāsī or perfect yogī. "Lord Caitanya, the highest perfectional symbol in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, prays in this way: 'O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women. Neither do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth.' " Prabhupāda: So a devotee does not want even salvation. Why Lord Caitanya says: "birth after birth"? The salvationists, they want to stop; the voidists, they want to stop this material way of life. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: "birth after birth." That means He is prepared to undergo all kinds of material pangs birth after birth. But what He wants? He simply wants to be engaged in the service of the Lord. That is the perfectional.
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Prabhupāda: The yogīs want some material power. That is the perfection of yoga. Not perfection; that is one of the procedure. Just like if you are actually practicing the regulative principles of yoga, then you can get eight kinds of perfection. You can become lighter than the cotton swab. You can become heavier than the stone. You can get anything, whatever you like, immediately. Sometimes you can even create a planet. Such powerful yogīs are there.

Viśvāmitra Yogī, he did it actually. He wanted to get man from palm tree, that "Why man should be begotten through the . . . living ten months within the womb of mother? They'll be produced just like fruit." He did it like that. So sometimes yogīs are so powerful, they can do. So these are all material powers. Such yogīs, they are also vanquished. How long you can remain on this material power? So bhakta-yogīs, they do not want anything such.

Go on. Yes.

Devotee: "But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of the whole without self-interest. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no desire for self-satisfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. And thus he is the perfect sannyāsī or perfect yogī.

"Lord Caitanya, the highest perfectional symbol in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, prays in this way: 'O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women. Neither do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth.' "

Prabhupāda: So a devotee does not want even salvation. Why Lord Caitanya says: "birth after birth"? The salvationists, they want to stop; the voidists, they want to stop this material way of life. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: "birth after birth." That means He is prepared to undergo all kinds of material pangs birth after birth. But what He wants? He simply wants to be engaged in the service of the Lord. That is the perfectional.
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