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Pururva realizations

Pururva realizations. 7-8: Waste of time 9-13: Humiliation 14: 1 st realization : “Lust is insatiable” 15: 2 nd realization : “Only Krishna can save me” 16-17: How can I blame her? 18-21: Beauty is an illusory super-imposition 22-24: Never associate with women .

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Pururva realizations

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  1. Pururvarealizations

  2. 7-8: Waste of time 9-13: Humiliation 14: 1st realization: “Lust is insatiable” 15: 2nd realization: “Only Krishna can save me” 16-17: How can I blame her? 18-21: Beauty is an illusory super-imposition 22-24: Never associate with women

  3. Lust makes the wealthiest, the strongest, the cleverest into dismal beggars Our essential choice: Humiliation vs Humility

  4. Lose-lose game: Lust is insatiable and irresistible (Impossible to satisfy, impossible to resist) Ladder of abstraction: The link from the specific to the universal takes place not by experience of material enjoyment, but by hearing and purification

  5. Christian idea of saving vs Vaishnava understanding of saving Krishna saves us by giving us the opportunity to practice devotional service

  6. Attitudes towards women: Karmi: Sense objects eg. All women for my enjoyment All women except my wife - mothers Jnani: Traps for entangling me eg. snakes Bhakti: Fellow-servants of Krishna Eg. Souls seeking Krishna, Vaishnavis, Gopis

  7. Worldly beauty agitates, Krishna’s beauty pacifies: Worldly beauty is limited and temporary; Krishna’s beauty, however, is eternal and eternally available for each one of us.

  8. Worldly beauty dissatisfies, Krishna’s beauty satisfies: Just as a spark doesn’t illuminate adequately, worldly beauty leaves us dissatisfied. Just as the sun provides abundant illumination, Krishna’s beauty provides us supreme satisfaction.

  9. Worldly beauty pollutes, Krishna’s beauty cleanses: Our unsatisfied thirst for worldly beauty goads us into immoral and perverse imaginations and actions. Our satisfied longing for Krishna gradually drives out all other longings from our heart.

  10. Sex is extraordinarily ordinary: Frequency: millions of times at every moment since creation began Availability: in every species Familiarity: in every lifetime till now

  11. Are my attachments holding me or am I holding my attachments? If daydreams, hopes and plans precede indulgence, then I am holding my attachments

  12. Our goal is not to prove our sense-control but to serve Krishna. Avoid association unless genuinely necessary The Billy Graham rule.

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