mentality
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Imported quote 17350 ...then immediately there will be dysentery. This is nature's law. If you take more than you can digest, then immediately there will be indigestion, means you cannot assimilate so much food. That is nature's law. If you touch fire, either you touch or your innocent child touch, the fire will burn it. Fire will not consider that "Here is a child. Let me excuse." No, it will burn. This is nature's law. Similarly, the thoughts which you are maintaining during your lifetime, if that thought becomes prominent-naturally it becomes-at the time of death, then you are going to get a similar body. If you are thinking like a demon, then you get the demon's body next life. And if you are thinking like a devotee, then you get your next life back to home, back to Godhead. This is nature's law. Therefore, if you practice instead of thinking like the demons, how to gratify senses... That is the demonic thought. They are concerned with this body. If you think of Krsna, how to serve Him, that is your perfection of life, because you'll think at the time of death of Krsna. Ante narayana-smrtiḥ [SB 2.1.6].
(More...) Imported quote 17391 So instead of thinking always like these demon, that "I have got so much money. Now I shall get further amount of money and it will be like so much money. He is my enemy. I have killed one of them. The other enemy..." This is going on actually, in the material field. So we have to rectify. We have to rectify. Aḍhyo 'bhijanavan asmi: "I am the richest man. I have got so many friends, all aristocratic." Abhijanavan. Janavan, dhanavan. Dhanavan means possessing wealth, and janavan means possessing men, strength, popular strength, and strength of money. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that na dhanam na janam na kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye. These are the bhakti path. The demon is thinking, "I have got so much money. I have got so many friends and so many relatives, so many family members." Caitanya Mahaprabhu is denying, that na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye , just the opposite: "I don't want any material friends or followers, neither I want money. Simply I want to serve You. Simply I want to serve You."
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