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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Bhagavad-gītā therefore says curing the disease means janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-doṣa . . . kleśa-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9). Those who are actually advancing in spiritual life, they should always keep in front that, "We may advance in so many things, but these four things—birth, death, old age and disease—cannot be solved by our so-called material advancement of science." And Bhagavad-gītā points out that you should always keep these four principles of misery in front. Then you'll be able to advance in spiritual path.
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[[Vanisource:701217 - Lecture SB 06.01.32-33 - Surat|701217 - Lecture SB 06.01.32-33 - Surat]]
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So these are sinful activities: illicit sex life and meat-eating, unnecessarily killing the animals. Why should you kill animals? If God has given you so many nice foodstuffs—varieties of fruit, varieties of grain, sufficient milk—why should you take to this obnoxious foodstuff? But it is ill luck, unfortunate. By ill association they'll learned all this nonsense. So therefore one has to give up these nonsense habits. That is called tapasya. Tapo divyam.

Why tapasya? Divyam: for spiritual realization. Why it is necessary? Tapo divyaṁ yena śuddhyet sattva. Your existence will be purified, because . . . just like in diseased condition we cannot relish very palatable foodstuff. A man, jaundice, suffering from jaundice, if you give him something just like candy, sugar candy, he'll taste it as bitter because he is suffering from jaundice. But sugar candy is not bitter. Similarly, in our diseased condition, this material body, actually you cannot taste real happiness. That is not possible. Therefore we have to cure the disease.

Bhagavad-gītā therefore says curing the disease means janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-doṣa . . . kleśa-doṣānudarśanam ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]). Those who are actually advancing in spiritual life, they should always keep in front that, "We may advance in so many things, but these four things—birth, death, old age and disease—cannot be solved by our so-called material advancement of science." And Bhagavad-gītā points out that you should always keep these four principles of misery in front. Then you'll be able to advance in spiritual path.
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