292 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 10
desire,” and Siinyam means “free from.” The spiritual soul has spiritual
activities and spiritual desires, as described by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu:
mama janmani janmanisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki 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 ma-
terial desires. Desirelessness means freedom from material desires. This
is described by Srila Ripa Gosvami as anyabhilasita-siinyam. 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 Krsna con-
sciousness. 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. Mayavadi 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 ma-
terially contaminated, however, one is put into the hands of material
misery (janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi). If one wants to stop repeated birth
and death, one must take to the devotional service of the Lord.
sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam
tat-paratvena nirmalam
hrsikena hrsikesa-
sevanam bhaktir ucyate
“Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the ser-
vice 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.”
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