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Bhagavad-gita 2.15
"The living entity in this way wandering in different species of life in different planetary platform, and therefore this is very disgusting, so if one is fortunate, then he comes in contact with a devotee. This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for giving this opportunity to everyone. We are opening centers all over the world, inviting people to "Come in our place. Understand the philosophy. We have got so many books. And try to save yourself from this botheration of repetition of birth and death." In order to execute to this business, apparently there is little difficulty. Just like we prescribe to our members, "No intoxication." So no intoxication... One who is habituated to drink, to smoke, to drink coffee, tea, etc., he feels some discomfort.
Similarly, we say, "No meat-eating." So those who are meat-eaters, they will find little difficulty to give up this habit. Similarly, we say, "No illicit sex," but one who is habituated for this illicit sex life, he feels some difficulty. So there are so many things. In the beginning it appears to be little difficult. Actually it is not difficult, but because we are habituated, we feel difficulty. So if you are actually anxious and serious to stop this repetition of birth and death, then we must take to Krsna consciousness, because without Krsna consciousness nobody can stop the repetition of birth and death. Therefore Krsna advises in this verse that "Accept this little difficulty."
Actually there is no difficulty, but because we are practiced, in the beginning we find little difficulty. Therefore here Krsna says, yam hi na vyathayanty ete: "All these so-called difficulties, if they do not bother or give some pain to a person..." Yam... All these difficulties...
Just like I am feeling difficulty. I am habituated to smoke. Now I am forbidden, "Not to smoke." So I am feeling difficulty. So therefore Krsna said, "Although it is not difficulty, but although one feels difficulty -- still he sticks to the principle -- then he becomes fit for going back to home, back to Godhead." So indriyani pramathini, in the Bhagavad-gita you'll find. Our senses are very strong, like mad snakes. There is some statement in Vedic literature, indriya-kala-sarpa-patali. Indriya, the senses, are just like dreadful snakes. But there is a means to subdue the snake. It is said, indriya-kala-sarpa-patali protkhata-damstrayate, means the snake may be very dangerous, but somehow or other, if you take out its poison teeth, then it is no more dangerous." The snake is dangerous on account of the poison teeth. So if, somehow or other, the poison teeth extricated, then the snake is no more dangerous. So our strong senses, snakelike senses, can be bereft of the poison teeth by accepting Krsna consciousness."
