Prabhupāda: "The purpose of practicing yoga means controlling the senses," but devotional service, because you are hearing Kṛṣṇa, we are eating Kṛṣṇa, we are chanting Kṛṣṇa, we are taking Kṛṣṇa. So there is no more necessity of yoga practice. You are, your senses being automatically engaged in Kṛṣṇa it, it is controlled. It has no scope to be engaged otherwise, that is control. Is it clear? You are trying to control the senses but because your senses are engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa there is no more scope of your senses being engaged otherwise, that means it is controlled.
Devotee: Then one has to control his senses through the yoga of devotional service
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Devotee: (indistinct) . . . Have to control his senses before becoming a pure devotee . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: No. If you engage yourself in devotional the control automatically done. You haven't got to practice it separately. It becomes automatically:
- vāsudeve bhagavati
- bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ
- janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ
- jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam
(SB 1.2.7)
Control means jñāna and vairāgya, that becomes automatically done without any reason, of course the reason is vāsudeve bhakti, ahaitukam.
Devotee: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda Vairāgya, vairāgya means, detachment. Vairāgya, vijāta, minus.
Devotee: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Devotee: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Sannyāsa is simply a symbolic representation of vairāgya. When, just like when you see a policeman in uniform you understand that, "Here is a policeman." Similarly the sannyāsī's dress is that he has taken vairāgya, but without dress also one can become vairāgya. Real thing is that one must have no more attachment for material enjoyment, that is vairāgya. So either you change your dress or not change that doesn't matter, sa sannyāsī:
- anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ
- kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ
- sa sannyāsī..
- (BG 6.1)
That is described in the Bhagavad-gītā.