- kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā pālitā durnideśās
- teṣāṁ . . . mayi na karuṇā na trapā nopaśāntiḥ
- (CC Madhya 22.16)
A brāhmin, he prays to Kṛṣṇa, "My dear Lord, I have become the servant of my senses." Here everyone is servant of his senses. They want to enjoy the senses. Not enjoy—they want to serve the senses. My tongue says: "Please take me to such-and-such restaurant and give me such-and-such chicken juice," I immediately go—not to enjoy, but to abide by the orders of my tongue. Therefore in the name of so-called enjoyment, we are all serving the senses. In Sanskrit it is called go-dāsa. Go means senses.
So unless you become gosvāmī, your life is spoiled. Gosvāmī. You cannot be dictated by the senses. You have to dictate to the senses. As soon as the tongue says: "Now you will take me to that restaurant, or give me a cigarette," if you say, "No. No cigarette, no restaurant; simply kṛṣṇa-prasāda," then you are gosvāmī. Then you are gosvāmī. This is the characteristic, sanātana. Because I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. So this is called sanātana-dharma. That we are describing in the Ajāmila-upākhyāna. This stage can be attained. Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena damena śaucena tyāgena yamena niyamena (SB 6.1.13). Therefore the whole Vedic literature is meant for how to control the senses. yoga. yoga indriya-saṁyama. That is yoga. yoga means not to show some magic. This is the first-class magic. If you are practicing yoga . . . I have seen so many so-called yogīs, but they cannot control the sense for smoking. You see?
Smoking and so many things are going on. And still, they are passing on as yogī. What kind of yogī? Yogī means one who has controlled the senses. Śamena damena brahmacaryeṇa. There are . . . in the Bhagavad-gītā it is all explained where yoga system is described. And five thousand years ago, Arjuna was hearing about this yoga, controlling senses.