A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego—he alone can attain real peace
vihāya kāmān yaḥ sarvān
pumāṁś carati niḥspṛhaḥ
nirmamo nirahaṅkāraḥ
sa śāntim adhigacchati
vihāya kāmān yaḥ sarvān
pumāṁś carati niḥspṛhaḥ
nirmamo nirahaṅkāraḥ
sa śāntim adhigacchati
To
become desireless means not to desire anything for sense gratification. In
other words, desire for becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious is actually desirelessness. To
understand one's actual position as the eternal servitor of Kṛṣṇa, without
falsely claiming this material body to be oneself and without falsely claiming
proprietorship over anything in the world, is the perfect stage of Kṛṣṇa
consciousness. One who is situated in this perfect stage knows that because Kṛṣṇa
is the proprietor of everything, therefore everything must be used for the
satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. Arjuna did not want to fight for his own sense
satisfaction, but when he became fully Kṛṣṇa conscious he fought because Kṛṣṇa
wanted him to fight. For himself there was no desire to fight, but for Kṛṣṇa
thesame Arjuna fought to his best ability. Desire for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa
is reallydesirelessness; it is not an artificial attempt to abolish desires.
The living entity cannot be desireless or senseless, but he does have to change
the quality of the desires. Amaterially desireless person certainly knows that
everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa (īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam), and therefore he does not
falsely claim proprietorship over anything. This transcendental knowledge is
based on self-realization—namely, knowing perfectly well that every living
entity is the eternal part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa in spiritual identity. and
therefore the eternal position of the living entity is never on thelevel of Kṛṣṇa
or greater than Him. This understanding of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the basic
principle of real peace
CHANT HARE KRSNA AND BE HAPPY .