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• Enjoy a Relationship with Him
• Experience Meaningful Relationships
with Others
• Develop Maturity of Character
• Express Ourselves thru Abilities
• Fulfill our Mission
Animal in the Desert
• Life meant to be enjoyed, not endured
• Most people don’t know HOW
• Their enjoyment CONDITIONAL &
OCCASIONAL
“O Dhananjaya, keep all
abominable activities far
distant by devotional
service, and in that
consciousness surrender
unto the Lord. Those who
want to enjoy the fruits of
their work are misers.”
Gita 2/29
England gives drugs to addicts, but doesn’t mean Queen is a pusher.
“There are many living entities within the ocean who enjoy
the activities of eating, sleeping, defending and mating. If such
insignificant living entities can enjoy life within the water, why
can't the Supreme Lord, who is all-powerful, sleep on the cool
body of a serpent and enjoy in the turmoil of violent ocean waves?”
SB 3/9/20
Conditional Pleasure
Generally a materialistic person becomes
very happy when there is something for
his sense gratification and his body, but
when he sees that others have something
for their sense gratification and he hasn't,
he is sorry and envious. When he is
expecting some retaliation from an enemy,
he is in a state of fear, and when he cannot
successfully execute something he
becomes dejected. A devotee who is
always transcendental to all these
disturbances is very dear to Krishna.
The people in general are naturally inclined to enjoy, and you have
encouraged them in that way in the name of religion. This is verily
condemned and is quite unreasonable. Because they are guided
under your instructions, they will accept such activities in the name
of religion and will hardly care for prohibitions. SB 1/5/15
“To attain material heavenly planets and enjoy their facilities,
he sometimes performs sacrifices (yajna), but when his merit
is exhausted he returns to earth again in the form of a man.
This process is called karma. Gita 8/3
“The highest perfection of
life is to enjoy life
constantly in the
association of the Lord,
and one who can relish this
does not aspire after any
temporary enjoyment of
the material world via
other media.” SB 2/20/30
Dvarka Fort
Kidnapped by Banasura
Husband of All
“When He so descends He proves how
much greater is His ability to enjoy, and
He exhibits His power of enjoyment by
marrying sixteen thousand wives at once.
Factually, the Lord is the husband of all
the women in His creation, but a
conditioned soul under the control of the
Lord feels proud to be the husband of one
or two wives.”
SB 2/4/20
cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrkshalakshavrtesu surabhi abhipalayantam
lakshmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamana
govindam ädi-purusam tam aham bhajami (Bs. 5.29)
Mac-citta madgata-prana
bodhayanta
parasparam
kathayantas ca
mam nityam
tushyanti ca
ramanti ca
Gita 10/12
The Lord can generate unlimited pleasure. His
name, attributes, pastimes, entourage,, etc. are
unlimited, and those who relish them can do so
unlimitedly & never feel satiated.
ramante yogino 'nante
iti räma-padenäsau
param brahmabhidhiyate. Padma Purana
Rukmini Dvarkadish
Krishna forcibly took Rukmini
like lion takes from jackals
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The great heroes of the Yadu
dynasty, being protected by
the arms of Lord Sri Krishna,
always remain fearless in every
respect. Their feet trample over the
Sudharma assembly house, which
the best demigods deserved but
which was taken away from them.
SB 1/14/38
Those who are directly servitors of the Lord are
protected by the Lord from all fearfulness, and they
also enjoy the best of things, even if they are forcibly
accumulated. The Lord is equal in behavior to all
living beings, but He is partial to His pure devotees,
being very affectionate toward them
“If Krishna wants to
save you, then no one
can harm you. If Krishna
wants to kill you, no one
can protect you.”
The central figure of creation and of enjoyment
is the Supreme Lord, and the living entities are
cooperators. By cooperation they enjoy. The
relation is also like that of the master and the
servant. If the master is fully satisfied, then the
servant is satisfied. The tendency to become
the creator and the tendency to enjoy the
material world are there also in the living
entities because these tendencies are there in
the Supreme Lord. Gita intro
Because he remains satisfied
in the loving service of the Lord,
he can remain steady, like the
ocean, and therefore enjoy full
peace. Others never attain peace.
The fruitive workers, the salvationists, and the
yogis who are after mystic powers are all
unhappy because of unfulfilled desires.
"My dear sons, there is no reason to labor very
hard for sense pleasure while in this human
form of life; such pleasures are available to the
stool-eaters [hogs]. Rather, you should
undergo penances by which your existence
will be purified, and as a result you will be able
to enjoy unlimited transcendental bliss."
By the result of the work in
which one is engaged, the
Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Sri Krishna, should
be worshiped. If one thinks
always in this way, in full Krishna
consciousness, then, by the grace of
the Lord, he becomes fully blissful.
That is the perfection of life. The Lord
says in Bhagavad-Gita (12.7), He takes
charge of delivering such a devotee.
“Lord Sri Krishna, is the
reservoir of innumerable
enchanting pastimes, and
thus He is the source of
innumerable varieties of
pleasure. In fact, He is the
ocean of eternal pleasure.”
SB 11/7/4
na tv evaham jatu nasam
na tvam neme janadhipah
na caiva na bhavisyamah
sarve vayam atah param
“Never was there a time when I did not
exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor
in the future shall any of us cease to
be.” Gita 2/12
“That supreme abode of Mine is not
illumined by the sun or moon, nor by
fire or electricity. Those who reach it
never return to this material world.”
This is the
transcendental position
of spiritual life. In other
words, one who hears
the Gita from the right
source, directly from
Krishna, attains full
Krishna consciousness.
The result of Krishna
consciousness is that
one becomes
increasingly enlightened,
and he enjoys life with a
thrill, not only for some
time, but at every
moment.
The Lord plays the part of a
subordinate in His
transcendental sporting, and
thus sometimes He puts
Himself in the care of Yasoda.
That is the transcendental lila, or pastime of the Lord. The basic
principle for all transcendental exchanges between the Lord and
His devotees is exhibited to enjoy a transcendental bliss for which
there is no comparison. SB 1/10/32
“It is a natural psychology in every individual
that a person likes to hear and enjoy his
personal glories enumerated by others. That
is a natural instinct, and the Lord, being also
an individual personality like others, is not an
exception to this psychology because
psychological characteristics are but
reflections of the same psychology in the
Absolute Lord. The only difference is that the
Lord is the greatest personality of all. If,
therefore, the Lord is attracted by the pure
devotee's chanting of His glories, there is
nothing astonishing.” SB 1/6/33