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companion of the living entity. Krsna consciousness
is the process by which one purifies his desires;
instead of desiring so many things for sense gratifi-
cation, one simply desires things for the service of
Krsna. For example, we may desire palatable food,
but instead of preparing foodstuffs for ourselves, we
can prepare them for Krsna and offer them to Him.
It is not that the action is different, but there is a
transfer of consciousness from thinking of acting for
my senses to thinking of acting for Krsna. We may
prepare nice milk products, vegetables, grains, fruits
and other vegetarian dishes for Krsna and then offer
them to Him praying, “This material body is a lump
of ignorance and the senses are a network of paths
leading to death. Of all the senses the tongue is the
most voracious and difficult to control. It is very
difficult to conquer the tongue in this world; there-
fore Sri Krsna has given us this nice prasadam, spiri-
tual food, to conquer the tongue. So let us take this
prasadam to our full satisfaction and glorify Their
Lordships Sri-Sri-Radha and Krsna and in love call
for the help of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda
Prabhu.” In this way our karma is sacrificed, for
from the very beginning we are thinking that the
food is being offered to Krsna. We should have no
personal desires for the food. Krsna is so merciful,
however, that he gives us the food to eat. In this
way our desire is fulfilled. When one has molded
his life in such a way—dovetailing his desires to
Krsna’s—then itis to be understood that he has
attained perfection in yoga. Simply breathing deeply
and doing some exercises is not yoga as far as
