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In this age of Kali Yuga, How did you become unattached from material things?

Questioner: Devotee

Date: 2022-12-09

How did I become?!

How did I become?

Well,

material desires are always there,

they are coming in the mind.

I don’t allow any time to address those.

I keep busy.

Who can say that they have no desire comes?

Desires may come in the mind.

So we go back to Kṛṣṇa and we have the material body desire may come,

but that desire we dovetail it in Kṛṣṇa’s service so we reject it.

Even Prabhupāda one time someone said,

"I have no lust,

Srila Prabhupāda,

I have no material desire." So,

Prabhupāda said,

"really!

what’s wrong with you!

(devotees laugh) I have material lust but I have no time to address that.

I have no time for that.

I am too busy in Kṛṣṇa’s service." You see,

the point is that it's already,

nobody can say that in the material world,

even if they were desireless,

they shouldn’t say that.

Because that would give,

even if someone was a nitya-siddha,

they have no desire,

which is very unlikely to find such souls in this world.

But even if that were the case,

they should,

supposed to take the role as a conditioned soul to teach by example others.

Even if one has some desire comes in the mind,

the desire is either dovetailed,

seen if that can be used for any Kṛṣṇa conscious purpose.

If it is totally material,

then it’s rejected with appropriate disgust,

according to the nature of that particular thought.

We stay so occupied in Kṛṣṇa’s service that there is no chance for Māyā to come in.

That is the secret.

Category: [Emotions / Lust], [Emotions / Greed], [Anarthās], [Sādhanā / Philosophical questions], [Sādhanā], [Material World / Kali yuga]