Bhaktivedanta swami prabhupada biography books

Chapter Five

Learning Steadiness in Krsna Consciousness

When one reaches the topmost position of material opulence, the tendency for renunciation is natural.

There are two tendencies in this material worldbhoga (sense enjoyment) and tyaga (renunciation of this material world). Without guidance, however, one does not know how to renounce. First of all, one wants to enjoy, and when he is frustrated in enjoyment, he renounces.

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Again, when he is tired of renunciation, he enjoys, like a clock pendulum which swings from side to side. We are thus all vacillating from the platform of enjoyment to the platform of renunciation and back again.

Karmis, fruitive workers, try to enjoy this world and reap the fruits of it.

Consequently, they are constantly traveling on expressways all day and night to engage in material enjoyment. On the other hand, there are others, predominantly the discontented youth, who dont want any part of this. Thus the world contains those engaged in bhoga and