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If you practice this spiritual way of life, the same way, gradually you will become completely spiritualized

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"if you practice this spiritual way of life, the same way, gradually you will become completely spiritualized"

Lectures

Initiation Lectures

Just like an iron rod. You put into the fire, it becomes warm, then warmer, warmer, and at last it becomes red hot. When the iron rod is red hot, it is no longer iron rod, it is fire. Similarly, if you practice this spiritual way of life, the same way, gradually you will become completely spiritualized. Completely spiritualized means that no more material activities. That is possible. If we follow the process, we can turn our life from material contamination to pure spiritual life. And that will help us going back to home, back to Godhead. That's all.

Prabhupāda: That's all right. Take it. You know all the rules and regulations, regulative principles?

Yajñeśvara: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So your name is Yajñeśvara dāsa. Yajñeśvara means . . . this is yajña, so sacrifice, sacrificing or satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So yajña means sacrifice, and one who enjoys the resultant action of sacrifice. All our sacrifices should go to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His name is Yajñeśvara.

(break) Whatever we shall do, as it is prescribed in the Bhagavad-gītā, yajñārthe karma anyatra lokaḥ ayam karma . . . (break) . . . you do, act only for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then you are not entangled in the resultant action. Otherwise you'll be entangled.

(break) Entangled means for one resultant action we are now, we have got this body. Again we are going to take another material body. So this is a chain of birth and death. But if you dedicate your life for the satisfaction of the Yajñeśvara, then no more you are going to accept any material body. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti (BG 4.9). After quitting this body, he does not accept any more material body. The spiritual body is already there within this material body. So those who are engaged in Yajñeśvara's service, they are giving up this material body and developing a spiritual body.

The example can be given: just like an iron rod. You put into the fire, it becomes warm, then warmer, warmer, and at last it becomes red hot. When the iron rod is red hot, it is no longer iron rod, it is fire. Similarly, if you practice this spiritual way of life, the same way, gradually you will become completely spiritualized. Completely spiritualized means that no more material activities. That is possible. If we follow the process, we can turn our life from material contamination to pure spiritual life. And that will help us going back to home, back to Godhead. That's all.

Page Title:If you practice this spiritual way of life, the same way, gradually you will become completely spiritualized
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-31, 17:46:19
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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