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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 10]
desire,” and  śūnyam  means “free from.” The spiritual soul has spiritual activities and spiritual desires, as described by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu:  mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi . Unalloyed devotion to the service of the Lord is the only spiritual desire. To fulfill this spiritual desire, however, one must be free from all material desires. Desirelessness means freedom from material desires. This is described by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī as  anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam . As soon as one has material desires, one loses his spiritual identity. Then all the paraphernalia of one’s life, including one’s senses, body, religion, patience and intelligence, are deviated from one’s original Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As soon as one has material desires, one cannot properly use his senses, intelligence, mind and so on for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Māyāvādī philosophers want to become impersonal, senseless and mindless, but that is not possible. The living entity must be living, always existing with desires, ambitions and so on. These should be purified, however, so that one can desire spiritually and be spiritually ambitious, without material contamination. In every living entity these propensities exist because he is a living entity. When materially contaminated, however, one is put into the hands of material misery ( janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ). If one wants to stop repeated birth and death, one must take to the devotional service of the Lord.
sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa- sevanam bhaktir ucyate
“Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all the senses. When the spirit soul renders service unto the Supreme, there are two side effects. One is freed from all material designations, and, simply by being employed in the service of the Lord, one’s senses are purified.”
TEXT 9
विमुञ्चति यदा कामान्मानवो मनसि स्थितान् ।
तद्येव पुण्डरीकाक्ष मगवत्त्राय कल्पते ॥ ९ ॥