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Material Conditioning is Necessary — So Don’t Rush Towards Liberation
The material exists to experience all of it, but we cannot lose sight of our true nature.
We love and lose. Seek indulgence and regret it the next morning. We go to work tired to pay our dues and relax when exhausted from the maintenance needed to sustain ourselves.
The material is defined as everything we can sense.
Desire is born out of attachment to these objects. Engaging in sense gratification is fulfilling these desires for our pleasure.
The Bhagavad Gita is like the Holy Bible without the complicated elements of a story — it cuts straight to the point. Although there is much to gain from studying the characters of the Holy Bible, if you want the essence of the spiritual, read the Bhagavad Gita.
The Gita postulates that materiality conditions us to forget where we came from and what this is for. We came from God and will eventually return to him. Along the way sense gratification entices us, but this is by God’s genius design.
It is natural, especially early in life, to desire sense gratification and have your life revolve around attaining the material. Remember the material isn’t confined to superficial Gucci slippers, it can be as…
