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their transcendental senses in the service of the Transcendence, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. In either case, the activities of the senses
in the material field are to be stopped by cultivation of knowledge, and, if
possible, they can be engaged in the service of the Lord. The senses are
transcendental in nature, but their activities become polluted when con-
taminated by matter. We have to treat the senses to cure them of the
material disease, not stop them from acting, as suggested by the imperson-
alist. In Bhagavad-gita (2.59) it is said that one ceases all material activities
only when satisfied by contact with a better engagement. Consciousness is
active by nature and cannot be stopped from working. Artificially stopping
a mischievous child is not the real remedy. The child must be given some
better engagement so that he will automatically stop causing mischief. In
the same way, the mischievous activities of the senses can only be stopped
by better engagement in relation with the Supreme Personality of God-
head. When the eyes are engaged in seeing the beautiful form of the
Lord, the tongue engaged in tasting prasadam or remnants of foodstuff
offered to the Lord, the ears engaged in hearing His glories, the hands
engaged in cleaning the temple of the Lord, the legs engaged in visiting His
temples—or when all the senses are engaged in transcendental variegated-
ness—then only can the transcendental senses become satiated and eternal-
ly free from material engagement. The Lord, as the Supersoul residing
in everyone’s heart and as the Supreme Personality of Godhead in
the transcendental world far beyond the material creation, is the seer of
all our activities. Our activities must be so transcendentally saturated that
the Lord will be kind enough to look upon us favorably and engage us in
His transcendental service; then only can the senses be satisfied completely
and be no longer troubled by material attraction.
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aSesa-sanklesa-samam vidhatte
gunanuvada-sravanam murareh
kirh vd punas tac-caranaravinda-
paraga-seva-ratir atma-labdha

aSesa—unlimited; sanklesa— miserable conditions; §amam-—cessation; vid-

hatte—can perform; guna-anuvada— description of the transcendental name,
