So you cannot be desireless. Desire means kāma. You cannot be. But desire has to be purified. That is wanted. Kāma . . . kāma kṛṣṇa-karmātmane. Kāma should be utilized. The same desire should be utilized for Kṛṣṇa's service. Then it is bhakti. Then it is prema. We sometimes mistake the activities of gopīs, it appears just like lusty affairs. But actually that is not. Gopīs used to dress themselves very nicely, attractively, so that Kṛṣṇa may be very pleased. That was gopīs' desire. Just like in the material world the woman dresses very nicely so that a man may be attracted upon her, and then both of them will fulfill their sex desire or sense gratification. That is material world. But in the spiritual world there it appears that gopīs are dressed very nicely not for the purpose of her own satisfaction. They want to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, that "If I dress nicely, Kṛṣṇa will be pleased." So that is prema. And as soon as . . . In the material world, nobody wants to please anyone. He wants to please himself, his senses. That is kāma. We should understand what is kāma and what is prema.
In the spiritual world there it appears that gopis are dressed very nicely not for the purpose of her own satisfaction. They want to satisfy Krsna, that "If I dress nicely, Krsna will be pleased"
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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
In the spiritual world there it appears that gopīs are dressed very nicely not for the purpose of her own satisfaction. They want to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, that "If I dress nicely, Kṛṣṇa will be pleased." So that is prema. And as soon as... In the material world, nobody wants to please anyone. He wants to please himself, his senses. That is kāma. We should understand what is kāma and what is prema.
Categories:
- In The Spiritual World
- Appear
- Krsna and the Gopis
- Dress
- Very Nicely
- Purpose
- Satisfaction
- Want To
- Satisfying Krsna
- Nicely
- Krsna Will
- Krsna's Blessings
- Pleasing Krsna
- Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1966 - 1977
- Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1976
- Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, Srimad-Bhagavatam
- Prabhupada Speaks - in India, Vrndavana
Page Title: | In the spiritual world there it appears that gopis are dressed very nicely not for the purpose of her own satisfaction. They want to satisfy Krsna, that "If I dress nicely, Krsna will be pleased" |
Compiler: | Ionelia |
Created: | 2015-12-29, 14:29:57 |
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