Text 21
Տեղուկի կա-կոուդ
200
beautiful women. Nor do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth ”
TEXT 2
यं संन्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव । न ह्यसंन्यस्तसंकल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन ॥ २ ॥
yaṁ sannyāsam iti prāhur yogaṁ taṁ viddhi pāṇḍava na hy asannyasta-saṅkalpo yogī bhavati kaścana
yam —what;  sannyāsaṃ —renunciation;  iti —thus;  prāhuḥ —they say;  yogam —linking with the Supreme;  tam —that;  viddhi —you must know;  pāṇḍava —O son of Pāṇḍu;  na —never;  hi —certainly;  asannyasta —without giving up;  saṅkalpaḥ —self-satisfaction;  yogī —a mystic transcendentalist;  bhavati —becomes;  kaścana —anyone.
TRANSLATION
What is called renunciation is the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, for no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification.
PURPORT
Real  sannyāsa-yoga  or  bhakti  means that one should know his constitutional position as the living entity, and act accordingly. The living entity has no separate independent identity. He is the marginal energy of the Supreme. When he is entrapped by material energy, he is conditioned, and when he is Kṛṣṇa conscious, or aware of the spiritual energy, then he is in his real and natural state of life. Therefore, when one is in complete knowledge, one ceases all material sense gratification, or renounces all kinds of sense gratificatory activities. This is practiced by the  yogīs  who restrain the senses from material attachment. But a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no opportunity to engage his senses in anything which is not for the purpose of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, a Kṛṣṇa conscious person is simultaneously a