- sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
- yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
- ahaituky apratihatā
- yayātmā suprasīdati
- (SB 1.2.6)
Ātmā suprasīdati. Ātmā means self. Our present position is that we are not happy. We are always full of anxieties. That is our present position. Now here, just the opposite word is used, that yayā ātmā suprasīdati. If you want to actually, if you want actually to make yourself jolly, full of happiness, then you should search out your occupation in such a way that it will lead you to the devotional service of the Supreme Lord. Sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmaḥ. Para means the highest, or the transcendent.
We are engaged in some . . . in some sort of activities. Nobody is free from activities. Even a ant, an ant, it is also engaged in activities. And the elephant. Ant is the most, I mean to . . . according to our vision, the ant is very small and the elephant is very big. But everyone, beginning from the ant up to the elephant, so far our experience is concerned . . . there are other big animals also. We have not seen, but we can see from the description of the scriptures that there are fishes in the ocean which is called timiṅgala.
So timiṅgala . . . you, perhaps you know that fish which is called in Sanskrit timi matsya, or whale fish, very big, sometime hundred feet long. So there are other fishes which is a timiṅgala, that fish swallows up this fish, this hundred-feet-long. Now just imagine what must be the length of that fish's body. You see? So in God's creation there are so many wonderful things. We have not seen all.