If the desire seeds are not uprooted, then they choke the determination to advance in spiritual life, because it is these material desires which are keeping us here in the material world. To give them up means that we have to adopt the process that Lord Krishna has given for purifying them within the heart. It is a fact that we must give them up, but not by our own efforts. If we try to give them up by our own efforts, we will never be able to give them up.
April 9, 1992, Minsk