Unless one is situated...

Expressions researched:
"Unless one is actually spiritually situated" |"Unless one is constantly situated" |"Unless one is fully situated" |"Unless one is so situated" |"Unless one is spiritually situated" |"Unless one is transcendentally situated" |"Unless the living entity is situated" |"Unless you are situated" |"unless and until one is situated" |"unless he is situated" |"unless one is not situated" |"unless one is situated" |"unless people are educated or situated" |"unless they are situated" |"unless we are situated"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "unless * * situated"

BG Chapters 1 - 6

BG 2.59, Translation and Purport:

The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.

Unless one is transcendentally situated, it is not possible to cease from sense enjoyment. The process of restriction from sense enjoyment by rules and regulations is something like restricting a diseased person from certain types of eatables. The patient, however, neither likes such restrictions nor loses his taste for eatables. Similarly, sense restriction by some spiritual process like aṣṭāṅga-yoga, in the matter of yama, niyama, āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, etc., is recommended for less intelligent persons who have no better knowledge. But one who has tasted the beauty of the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, in the course of his advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, no longer has a taste for dead, material things. Therefore, restrictions are there for the less intelligent neophytes in the spiritual advancement of life, but such restrictions are only good until one actually has a taste for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. When one is actually Kṛṣṇa conscious, he automatically loses his taste for pale things.