We cannot force someone to give up his conditional nature and material desires
Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature
Everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes
What can repression accomplish
aOnly ‘platform’ to be free from modes — Transcendental platform of Krishna consciousness (Ref. Bg. 7.14)
b‘High education’ fails to help — Impossible to get out of Maya simply by theoretical knowledge. Examples:
Many so called spiritualists pose as advanced in science but inwards or privately, they are completely under the modes of nature
One may be academically learned but because of long association with material nature, he is in bondage
c‘Without being fully in Krishna consciousness one should not give up one’s occupational duties – because:
Krishna consciousness helps one to get out of material entanglement, even though one may be engaged in his material prescribed duties
No-one should suddenly give up his prescribed duties and become a so-called transcendentalist artificially
Stay in one’s position and try to attain Krishna consciousness under superior training