Hridayananda dasa Goswami - "The Bhogi Man!"
H.H. Hridayananda dasa Goswami
"The attitude of the demons is described in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 16, 13-15. Ishvaroham - I am the lord of everything. Aham bhogi - I am the bhogi man! (devotees laugh) - the enjoyer. Siddhoham - I am perfect. As conditioned souls, we have elements of this demoniac mentality, and so have to carefully guard against it by always keeping the service mentality. Also, the demons say: Yakshye - I shall sacrifice, Dasyami - I shall give charity. Because actually the demons think they are good people. Ravana thought he was doing a great service to the people of Lanka by building a stairway to the heavenly planets so they could enjoy without earning it. There was some Romanian dictator who was standing for trial recently, and he was accused of basically slaughtering millions of innocent people. But he was convinced that he was a good person, his defence was, "I built lots of hospitals in Romania though!" So that is why Krishna explains ity agyana-vimohitah - in other words these demons are deluded by ignorance."
Paraphrased from a Bhagavad-gita lecture
KC Nectar:
http://nimesh0775.blogspot.com/
"The attitude of the demons is described in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 16, 13-15. Ishvaroham - I am the lord of everything. Aham bhogi - I am the bhogi man! (devotees laugh) - the enjoyer. Siddhoham - I am perfect. As conditioned souls, we have elements of this demoniac mentality, and so have to carefully guard against it by always keeping the service mentality. Also, the demons say: Yakshye - I shall sacrifice, Dasyami - I shall give charity. Because actually the demons think they are good people. Ravana thought he was doing a great service to the people of Lanka by building a stairway to the heavenly planets so they could enjoy without earning it. There was some Romanian dictator who was standing for trial recently, and he was accused of basically slaughtering millions of innocent people. But he was convinced that he was a good person, his defence was, "I built lots of hospitals in Romania though!" So that is why Krishna explains ity agyana-vimohitah - in other words these demons are deluded by ignorance."
Paraphrased from a Bhagavad-gita lecture
KC Nectar:
http://nimesh0775.blogspot.com/
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