Senses Are Not Null And Void - Prabhupada 0258

660413 - Lecture BG 02.55-58 - New York

Arjuna's statement that "I shall not fight," that was his sense satisfaction. Because he was thinking in bodily relation, therefore that sort of thinking, that "I shall not fight," this mental state was his sense's satisfaction. But here, when he agreed to fight, that was not his sense satisfaction; that was the satisfaction of the Lord.

Therefore we have to purify our senses, not to use it for my satisfaction, but to use it for the satisfaction of the Supreme. That's all. That is our perfection. You are not devoid of the senses. Not that after being situated in spiritual consciousness your senses become null and void. No. Senses cannot be null and void, because life means senses. Without senses there is no life. But this is the process of purification of the senses. That's all.