"Our perfect teachers within the Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya have all enlightened us with their glorious realizations on the real process of making our polluted minds our allies on the path back to Godhead. Having all wrongly desired to be God's competitors as enjoyers of His varigated energies, we have sorely paid the price by our addiction to the fleeting pleasures of this Mayic world. This universal spiritual disease cannot be artificially cured by our own means. Only when we willingly surrender to the truth of our subdservient relation to our Source, Lord Sri Krishna, can we hope to be lifted out of our self-created troubles (like birth,disease and death). As conscious entities, emanating from the Supreme Person Sri Krishna, we partake of His perfect sentient nature of eternal knowledge and bliss. Only by connecting again with our divine Source can we be brought back to our original purity and blissful nature as His loving servants. Lord Krishna is described as Manohara and Manorama, He Who captures the mind and gives full pleasure to our mind. That is possible only pure devotion as exemplified to perfection by His great devotees in our Sampradaya. They have taught the world the truth of yukta-vairagya: how everything belongs to God and should all be offered back to Him, starting with our mind and senses. When we lovingly serve Hrishikesa, Lord Krishna the Master of the senses, then our senses and mind become at last purified and truly satisfied. No other artificial impersonal vairagya can acheive this natural state of communion with the Supreme Personality of Godhead." - Gokulananda dasa