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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

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"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"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

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.

Just like . . . of course, in your country I know that there is no such disease as typhoid, but India there is a fever called typhoid. Here it is called typhosis or something like, medical term. That typhoid is disease of intestine. Now, that . . . in that disease, any solid food is strictly forbidden. First time is twenty or fourteen days, then twenty-one days, then forty-one days, up to sixty days. He is to live only on glucose water. That's all. Other things is dangerous for him. Now, if that typhoid patient desires to eat some solid food, and if somebody, out of compassion, gives him some solid food, then it is death for him, because in that condition he cannot enjoy. His enjoyment is forbidden.

Therefore, 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: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
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-24, 14:24:32
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1