When we first came into Krsna consciousness we are very amazed how Srila Prabhupada, as well as his representatives, most of their lectures were simply about the subject of giving up sense gratification, how deadly sense gratification is to one’s spiritual lives. And we have one wonderful devotee here who has told me and others, that he would go to many, many kathas where days and days and days sometimes six hours a day, for six-seven days would just be all kind of nice stories, some philosophy for years and years, but he never heard anyone say that you have to give up sense gratification!! When he came to the Hare Krsna temple immediately everyone is telling him that he must give up sense gratification and these classes and facts are hammered into our consciousness to the extent that a devotee feels guilty about sense gratification. So this is very good because Prabhupada use to say that sense gratification and Krsna consciousness go ill together, just like if you take cold water and throw it into burning hot ghee - what will be the reaction? They simply would not mix, it will create a violent reaction because they are opposites.
H H Radhanath Swami
