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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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"One who controls the mind, therefore the senses as well, is called gosvāmī or svāmī. One who is controlled by the mind is called go-dāsa, or the servant of the senses. A gosvāmī knows the standard of sense happiness.
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[[Vanisource:690218 - Lecture BG 06.25-29 - Los Angeles|690218 - Lecture BG 06.25-29 - Los Angeles]]
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So everything depends on training. That is yoga system. Yoga means . . . the whole yoga system means training—our senses, our mind, our this, that, so many things—then we are fixed up in the self. Do you think that simply by fifteen minutes' meditation we realize? And do all nonsense all the day? No. It requires training. You are going to solve the problems of life, you want to do it very cheap? No. Then you'll be cheated. You have to pay for it. If you want the nicest thing, then you have to pay for it.

But by the grace of Lord Caitanya, the payment has been made very easy: chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Everything becomes very . . . all this controlling system, perfection of yoga system, becomes very easy. That is the mercy of Lord Caitanya. Ihā haite sarva-siddhi haibe tomāra (Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya 23.78).

Lord Caitanya has blessed that if you follow this principle, chanting, then you'll get all the perfection of self-realization. That is a fact.

So for this age, when people are so much fallen, no other process will be successful. This process is the only process. It is very easy and sublime and effective and practical, and one can realize oneself. Pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyam ([[Vanisource:BG 9.2 (1972)|BG 9.2]]).

In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that you can practically experience. In other system, you do not practically experience how far you are making progress. But this system, if you follow for a few days, you realize, "Yes, I am making progress." Just like if you eat, you understand that your hunger is satisfied. Similarly, actually if you follow this principle of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, you'll see yourself that you are advancing in the matter of self-realization.

Go on.

Viṣṇujana: "One who controls the mind, therefore the senses as well, is called gosvāmī or svāmī. One who is controlled by the mind is called go-dāsa, or the servant of the senses. A gosvāmī knows the standard of sense happiness. In transcendental sense happiness, the senses are engaged in the service of Hṛṣīkeśa, the supreme owner of the senses, Kṛṣṇa. Serving Kṛṣṇa with purified senses is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the way of bringing the senses under full control. What is more, that is the highest perfection of yoga practice."

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Viṣṇujana: Verse twenty-seven: "The yogī whose mind is fixed on Me verily attains the highest pleasure. By virtue of his identity with Brahman, he is liberated, his mind is peaceful, his passions are quieted and he is freed from sin."

Twenty-eight: "Steady in the self, being freed from all material contamination, the yogī achieves the highest perfectional stage of happiness in touch with the Supreme Consciousness."

Prabhupāda: So here is the perfection. "The yogī whose mind is fixed on Me." "Me" means Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is speaking. If I am speaking, "Give me a glass of water," it does not mean that the water should be supplied to somebody else. Similarly, Bhagavad-gītā is being spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa, and He says: "Me." "Me" means Kṛṣṇa. This is clear understanding. But there are many commentators, they deviate from Kṛṣṇa. I do not know why. That is their nefarious motive. No. "Me" means Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa conscious person is always in yoga trance.
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