How the senses can be stopped from mischievous activities
The senses are transcendental in
nature, but their activities become polluted when contaminated by matter.
We have to treat the senses to cure them of the material disease, not
stop them from acting, as suggested by the impersonalist. In Bhagavadgita
(2.59) it is said that one ceases all material activities only when
satisfied by contact with a better engagement. Consciousness is active by
nature and cannot be stopped from working. Artificially stopping a
mischievous child is not the real remedy. The child must be given some
better engagement so that he will automatically stop causing mischief. In
the same way, the mischievous activities of the senses can be stopped
only by better engagement in relation with the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. When the eyes are engaged in seeing the beautiful form of the
Lord, the tongue engaged in tasting prasada, or remnants of foodstuff
offered to the Lord, the ears are engaged in hearing His glories, the
hands engaged in cleaning the temple of the Lord, the legs engaged in
visiting His temples–or when all the senses are engaged in
transcendental variegatedness–then only can the transcendental senses
become satiated and eternally free from material engagement.