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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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In the beginning, first of all we shall speak in this chapter, Lord Kṛṣṇa will teach you what is yoga system. Therefore in the beginning Kṛṣṇa says that no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification. So anyone who is indulging in sense gratification, he's a nonsense. He's not a yogī. He cannot be a yogī. Yoga system is strictly celibacy, no sex life. That is yoga system. No one can become a yogī if he indulges in sex life. The so-called yogīs come to your country and say: "Yes, whatever you like you can do. You meditate, I give you some mantra." These are all nonsense. Here it is authoritative statement that no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification. This is the first condition.
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[[Vanisource:690214 - Lecture BG 06.02-5 - Los Angeles|690214 - Lecture BG 06.02-5 - Los Angeles]]
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If there is any disease, you can spend any amount to cure. Similarly, we, at the present moment in the conditioned state of material existence, we are separated from God. Therefore we are so much reluctant to speak of God, to understand about God, our relationship with God. We think it is simply waste of time.

In this meeting, everyone knows that this temple, Kṛṣṇa consciousness temple, is speaking of God. Or any church. People are not very much interested. They think it is a kind of, what is called, recreation, in the name of spiritual advancement; otherwise it is simply waste of time. Better this time could be used for earning some money or enjoying in a club or in a restaurant—sense enjoyment.

So detraction from God means sense enjoyment. Those who are too much addicted to sense enjoyment, they are not, I mean to say, eligible for yoga system. Yoga system is not that, that you go on doing all nonsense in sense gratification and simply sit down meditation. This is simply colossal hoax. It has no meaning. Yoga system first is to sense . . . controlling the sense: yama, niyama. There are eight different stages of practicing yoga: yama, niyama, āsana, dhyāna, dhāraṇā, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, samādhi.

So in the beginning, first of all we shall speak in this chapter, Lord Kṛṣṇa will teach you what is yoga system. Therefore in the beginning Kṛṣṇa says that no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification. So anyone who is indulging in sense gratification, he's a nonsense. He's not a yogī. He cannot be a yogī.

Yoga system is strictly celibacy, no sex life. That is yoga system. No one can become a yogī if he indulges in sex life. The so-called yogīs come to your country and say: "Yes, whatever you like you can do. You meditate, I give you some mantra." These are all nonsense. Here it is authoritative statement that no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification. This is the first condition.
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