This is Maya. "Come on, come on, enjoy me." As soon as you enjoy, you become entrapped. Just like they throw the tackle and invite the fish. As soon as — it eats! Finished. The fish is losing his life by eating, by tongue. The deer by hearing; the hunter plays very nice flute and all of them assemble to hear. Hunter keeps the trap and it loses life. The elephant is caught by sexual attraction. A she-elephant is trained, goes to the male elephant, and it follows. The male elephant falls into a big pit. Then he's shackled and taken away. Bumble bee is entrapped by smelling lotus flower; it gets trapped within the flower, and loses its life. These examples are for animal kingdom whose one sense is only active.
But in case of human beings, all our senses are active. Then what is our position? A man has got six wives, and he has entered the house, and all the wives have captured him, "You come to my room." You see? So one has taken his one hand, another has taken another hand, one has taken his one leg, so he's like this: "Where shall I go?" So this is our position. This body means the senses. My eyes want, "Oh, there is a beautiful girl. Let us see." Ear. "Oh, there is very nice music. Let us have it." "Oh, there is a very good restaurant, palatable dishes. Let’s go." Tongue dictates. Eyes dragging to some place, ear dragging, tongue dragging. So our position is like different wives and dragging to different rooms. Thus, we are perplexed. Instead of controlling the senses, we are becoming servant of senses and losing this great opportunity of human life.
The only way to get out of it is to be fully Krishna conscious.
Ref: Bhagavad-gita 2.20-25 Seattle, October 14, 1968 authored by Srila Prabhupada (Founder - Acharya, ISKCON)
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pamho prabhus agtACBSP,nice article, SRILA PRABHUPADA all time say the real truth that puffed up people like gbc do not want admit by becoming gurus while they are trapped in the net of their material senses,i'm nobody a very insignificant living entity who is trying to get free from the slavery of the material senses by practicing hrsikena hrsikesa sevanam bhaktir ucyate,of course my ego is been smashed so many times by losing all good reputation and this is a plan of SRI KRSNA to make me more serious to surrender to HIM by understanding the trick of maya devi in keeping people trapped in their own senses gratification by keeping trying to get a good material reputation which is getting smashed very often,therefore any intelligent sadhaka can understand by keeping going with the daily sadhana bhakti that we need to save ourselves without looking in back but to look ahead for further spiritual advancement without caring for the barking dogs of the false ego which increase the sentence life in this pukka jail makes by gunas and karma,to be free means to care about the own business connected to the eternal service to our guru maharaj HDG ACBSP by avoiding to get involve with people who are still in the way to understand the final order of SRILA PRABHUPADA in iskcon.thank you for your sat-sanga agtys ys acsd haribol
Maya
The body sets the stage for our illusions and entrapment.