Perpetual happiness
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Preface and Introduction
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
SB Canto 4
SB Canto 5
SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1971 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: The human demand is happiness.
Guest (1): Happiness, yes. But happiness means increase in which is already happy. It is...
Prabhupāda: Yes. Now, the thing is, what is that happiness? That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam: [Bg. 6.21] "The absolute happiness or the perpetual happiness or the greatest happiness is that which is enjoyed by supernatural senses."
Guest (1): Would that be by all the senses—mind, intelligence...?
Prabhupāda: Yes, everything but in their supernatural, not in this condition.
Guest (1): Not in this?
Prabhupāda: Condition.
Guest (1): You see, otherwise it is said that when a person is happy with the self, happy with others...
Prabhupāda: No, no. No, no. Try to understand. He has got his senses. These senses are now covered with the coating of material conception of life. Therefore this sense pleasure is not complete or perfect. Just like everyone has got... Now, you have got your tongue. Now, the tongue, when it is coated you cannot taste the things. So the coating is māyā.Guest (1): Yes, how to live in such a way where there is no dearth of thing as well as there is no continuing of that need that a man becomes lost? That is the...
Prabhupāda: That is the point.
Guest (1): That is the point. And for that, what kind of spiritual should we lead?
Prabhupāda: That is... That I am going to explain, that... That is one line: sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam [Bg. 6.21]. This sukham ātyantikaṁ is being searched both by the Western, Eastern, everyone, even cats, dogs, everyone. But the cats and dogs, animals, they cannot adjust what is that ātyantikaṁ sukham. But human being can. So human being, there is no question of Eastern and Western. It is a question of degree only. But actually everyone is searching after that perpetual happiness. So it is a problem for everyone, and that problem can be solved by Kṛṣṇa consciousness.Page Title: | Perpetual happiness |
Compiler: | Laksmipriya, Labangalatika |
Created: | 01 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=4, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=3, Con=2, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 10 |