Śīta ātapa bāta bariṣaṇa. Now, those who are working, oh, they have no consideration that there is snowfall or there is scorching heat. Śīta ātapa, bāta, severe cold, and bariṣaṇa means heavy torrents of rain. Oh, he has to go to the office and work. Śīta ātapa, bāta bariṣaṇa, ei dina jāminī jāgi' re. Night duty. These are severe type of laboring. And the poet says, śīta ātapa, bāta bariṣaṇa, ei dina jāminī jāgi re. Why? Now, biphale sevinu, kṛpaṇa durajana, capala sukha labha lāgi' re: "For that momentary happiness I am working so hard."
So everywhere in the Vedic literature this life, this materialistic way of life, is condemned. Is condemned. So Ṛṣabhadeva says that "This life is meant for tapasya." Tapaḥ. Tapaḥ divyaṁ putrakā: "My dear sons, you are so . . . if you think that this human form of life is meant for, oh, sex happiness and working day and night so hard, oh, this life is not meant for that purpose. That is visible in the cats' and dogs' and hogs' life. They are also laboring the whole day and satisfied by sex life. So your life is not meant for that."
Then what it is meant for? He says, tapaḥ, "It is meant for tapasya, austerity, penance." "Oh, you are . . . we are taking so much pains also." Don't you think these materialists, they are earning, they are making so improvement without any labor, without any tapasya? No. They are also laboring. They are undergoing, I mean, severe austerity. That's nice. But here it is said, tapaḥ divyam: "You have to undergo austerities and penance for God realization." Divyam. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā (SB 5.5.1).
Why? Why not this material world? Why God realization? The . . . it is very nicely stated that tapo divyaṁ yena sattva śuddhyet: "If you accept this tapasya, or austerity, for God realization, then your existentional position will be purified." At the present moment, due to my material conditional life, because I have got this material body, therefore my pleasure . . . I am hankering after pleasure, but whatever pleasure I am acquiring, that is not permanent, or flickering, or simply illusion. But that hankering after pleasure is your constitutional position.
Because you are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, who is ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12), who is by nature blissful, and you are part and parcel of that blissful Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore your nature is also blissful. That is a fact. But you are seeking pleasure or blissfulness in a place where it is not possible. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattva (SB 5.5.1). And by purification of your existentional position, the result will be yasmād brahma-saukhyam.
Brahma means the greatest. Greatest. Bṛhatvād bṛhannatvād iti . . . Brahma means the greatest, and who comes in contact with Brahma, he also becomes greatest. That is called Brahma. So if you accept austerity in this life and don't behave like cats and dogs and hogs, simply for sex pleasure, then the result will be that your existence will be purified, by which you'll realize eternal happiness, anantam, which has no end—no beginning, no end. Actually it is so.
So this knowledge of brahma-saukhyam is . . . in so many ways they are instructed in Vedic literature. We have got volumes and volumes of Vedic literature. The first, we have got the four Vedas. Then we have got the Upaniṣads. Then we have got Vedānta-sūtra. Then we have got Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, then Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and so many. And one book, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, it contains eighteen thousand verses. Mahābhārata contains hundreds of thousand verses. There are eighteen Purāṇas and 108 Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra—immense literature for understanding what is brahma-saukhyam.
So these literatures are meant for the human society, not for the cat society, dog society. The great sages of India, especially Vyāsadeva, he labored so hard and delivered so valuable literatures to us. There is opportunity. It was the duty of India to distribute this knowledge all over the world, this immense treasure of knowledge. Unfortunately . . . and as so far we have studied that persons who are great thinkers, they were expecting. They have still some respect for India's great treasure house of the spiritual knowledge. But unfortunately there is no arrangement for distributing this spiritual knowledge all over the world.