Transported into Higher Dimensional Reality

Those who are actually intelligent do not remain slaves of their senses and thus continue as prisoners of the lower dimensional reality, which obliges one to repeatedly, unendingly suffer birth, death, old age, and disease. Those with higher intelligence take advantage of the most amazing technology that can found anywhere in the universe, the Hare Krishna mahamantra. When one faithfully chants this most potent of all mantras, one is transported immediately into the higher dimensional reality where life is eternal, full of bliss, and full of knowledge.

Prabhupada Chants on Hippy Hill
San Francisco, USA-1967

Prabhupada Chants on Hippy Hill, San Francisco, USA

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: How to Master Our Senses?

Dear Gurudeva,
Namaste.

I would like to ask the following questions:
How to master our senses? Is it by abstaining them from feeding? Why is abstinence from sense enjoyment alone not enough to bring one to spiritual perfection? Why is that even while abstaining from the sense of enjoyment, attachment continues to grow?

Yours in Yoga

Janardan Mali
Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA

Answer: Engage Them 24 Hours in Krishna's Service

Restricting or denying the senses does not free them from their desire for material sense enjoyment, just as denying a thirsty man water does not free him from the thirst for water.

Krishna explains in Bhagavad-gita 2.59:

viṣayā vinivartante
nirāhārasya dehinaḥ
rasa-varjaṁ raso 'py asya
paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate

"The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness."

So, the way to master the senses is to engage them fully 24 hours a day in the service of Lord Krishna beginning with the tongue. By this engagement the senses will enjoy a higher taste than they obtained by material sense enjoyment, and thus the senses will be automatically conquered and fully satisfied.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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