Simply thinking, "Oh, it is material. It is not spiritual. Let me give it up," but I do not know how to utilize them in the purpose of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then that sort of renunciation is not very much appreciated by our Gosvāmī sampradāya. We should not decry anything. Whatever is produced now, welcome. But let it be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then everything will be all right.
The same example—just like Arjuna was a fighter. He was a military man. But he was trying to mix with sense gratification. He was trying . . . he declined to fight just to make his own sense gratification. What is that sense gratification? He thought that "By killing my kinsmen, my brothers on the other side, I will be unhappy." So my happiness and unhappiness pertaining to this body, that is a kind of sense gratification.
So when he was taught Bhagavad-gītā, he gave up that process of sense gratification. He agreed to fight to satisfy the sense of Kṛṣṇa. So he remained the same fighting man. He remained the same military man. But only difference was that in the beginning he wanted to satisfy his own senses, and at the end of studying Bhagavad-gītā, when he became a liberated soul, he engaged the same energy for the sense gratification of Kṛṣṇa.
So this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We haven't got to decry anything. Simply we have to change the consciousness. Everything we are now doing in the matter of sense gratification, we have to prepare ourself, we have to train ourself for the sense gratification of Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So that requires toleration.
Now we are practiced to satisfy our own senses since a very, very long time. In every life, either in this human form of life, in other . . . so many species of life, everyone is engaged for sense gratification. Now we have to change the process. Instead to satisfying my senses, we have to agree to satisfy the senses of Kṛṣṇa.
Unfortunately, we make the Supreme Lord senseless. "Oh, God is impersonal; He has no sense. He has no hand. He has no mouth. He has no leg." Then what it is? So we are creating imagination . . . imaginary God in that way. But here is God present: Kṛṣṇa. He's with hands and legs and face and speaking to Arjuna. So God is not senseless.
If He is senseless, then there was no use of speaking this Bhagavad-gītā and taking it so very important book so that world is reading very carefully. He's not senseless. He is with full sense. Otherwise His Bhagavad-gītā has no meaning. So He is with full sense. Now, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness means that instead of satisfying my senses, we have to satisfy the sense of Kṛṣṇa. A simple process. It is not very difficult.
- kāma-krodha-vimuktānāṁ
- yatīnāṁ yata-cetasām
- abhito brahma-nirvāṇaṁ
- vartate viditātmanām
- (BG 5.26)
Kāma-krodha-vimuktānām. Now, this kāma-krodha, lust, anger, it has been advised in the Fourth Chapter that they are our very great enemies, so we have to give it up. Kāma-krodha-vimuktānām. So kāma-krodha: we have to give up this lust and kāma. Kāma is lust, and krodha means anger. Now, just see . . . kāma-krodha-vimuktānām. How kāma-krodha-vimukta, how one can be freed from kāma-krodha? Kāma-krodha, how one can be freed?