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Actually, you cannot enjoy this diseased condition of this body. Enjoyment, real enjoyment, means that is non stopping. Nonstop

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"Actually, you cannot enjoy this diseased condition of this body. Enjoyment, real enjoyment, means that is non stopping. Nonstop"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

If you really want freedom from this material existence and miseries of material existence, then we must minimize the bodily enjoyment. We must minimize. The . . . just like a diseased man is given some liquid food. He is forbidden . . . he is forbidden to take any food, because any food will aggravate his disease, but still, because he has to exist, he is given some glucose water, some barley water, some fruit juice, little. Just . . . it is also psychological. The patient may think also that, "I am eating something. I am eating, not I am starving. I am eating." That is also psychological effect. At the same time, this light food, fruit juice or glucose water, that is easily digested, so there is no harm.

Similarly, we have to . . . our the present life is diseased condition, so if we want to cure this disease of repeated birth and death, then we have to restrict, restrict our bodily enjoyment. Because we cannot enjoy. It is simply so-called enjoyment. Actually, you cannot enjoy this diseased condition of this body. Enjoyment, real enjoyment, means that is non stopping. Nonstop. There is a verse in Mahābhārata, ramante yoginaḥ anante (CC Madhya 9.29). Yoginaḥ, those who are yogīs or spiritualist. Yogīs means spiritualist. The general meaning of yogī is spiritualist. Those who are endeavoring to emancipate from this material condition of life and trying to elevate to the spiritual platform, he is called yogī.

In our diseased condition of this bodily conception of life, if we increase our so-called enjoyment, enjoyment of the body, oh, then we shall be more and more entangled in this conditional life of material existence. If you really want freedom from this material existence and miseries of material existence, then we must minimize the bodily enjoyment. We must minimize. The . . . just like a diseased man is given some liquid food. He is forbidden . . . he is forbidden to take any food, because any food will aggravate his disease, but still, because he has to exist, he is given some glucose water, some barley water, some fruit juice, little. Just . . . it is also psychological. The patient may think also that, "I am eating something. I am eating, not I am starving. I am eating." That is also psychological effect. At the same time, this light food, fruit juice or glucose water, that is easily digested, so there is no harm.

Similarly, we have to . . . our the present life is diseased condition, so if we want to cure this disease of repeated birth and death, then we have to restrict, restrict our bodily enjoyment. Because we cannot enjoy. It is simply so-called enjoyment. Actually, you cannot enjoy this diseased condition of this body. Enjoyment, real enjoyment, means that is non stopping. Nonstop. There is a verse in Mahābhārata, ramante yoginaḥ anante (CC Madhya 9.29).

Yoginaḥ, those who are yogīs or spiritualist. Yogīs means spiritualist. The general meaning of yogī is spiritualist. Those who are endeavoring to emancipate from this material condition of life and trying to elevate to the spiritual platform, he is called yogī.

Page Title:Actually, you cannot enjoy this diseased condition of this body. Enjoyment, real enjoyment, means that is non stopping. Nonstop
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-05-17, 20:54:15
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1