Bring happiness
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
SB Canto 8
SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13
SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Madhya-lila
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Light of the Bhagavata
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Now the incentive in modern society to become educated or to become engineer is money. What is the incentive in Vedic culture?
Prabhupāda: There is no need of money. The brāhmaṇa teaches everything free of charge. There is no question of money. Anyone can take education as a brāhmaṇa or a kṣatriya, as a vaiśya. There is no... Vaiśya doesn't require any education. Kṣatriyas require little. Brāhmaṇa require. But that is free. Just find out a brāhmaṇa guru and he will give you free education. That's all. This is society. Now, as soon as... At the present moment, as soon as one wants to be educated, he requires money. But in the Vedic society there is no question of money. Education free.
Harikeśa: So the incentive is the happiness in society?
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is... Everyone is hankering after: "Where is happiness?" This will be the happiness. When people will be peaceful, happy in their living condition, that will bring happiness, not by imagining that "If I have got a skyscraper building, I will be happy," and then jump over and commit suicide. That is going on. He is thinking that "If I have a skyscraper building, I will be happy," and when he is frustrated, he jumps down. That is going on. This is happiness. That means all rascals. They do not know what is happiness. Therefore everyone requires guidance from Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.Prabhupāda: Don't think that "My father left so much property. Let me eat and drink and go to hell." That is not happiness. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam [Bg. 6.21]. Everything explained. Read books. Be devotee. That will bring happiness. And economically you may not be disturbed that you're poverty-stricken, you have to beg something or... No. Whatever is absolutely... More than that. More than that. One man does not require 2,500. Nowadays, even it is very expensive, one thousand is sufficient. Although everything is expensive, one thousand rupees sufficient for a person. You are each getting that. So the plan is all right. Now you try to become devotee. That will bring happiness. Otherwise there is no happiness.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have experience of that for sure.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They were all rich men's sons. Where is happiness? They became hippie.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We gave up all of that because we weren't happy.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Everyone wants to be happy. Who does not want to be happy? But he does not know how to become happy.Page Title: | Bring happiness |
Compiler: | Vrindi, Haya |
Created: | 20 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=8, CC=1, OB=1, Lec=1, Con=2, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 13 |