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So we are simply repeating the same thing. We do not question whether this process of life can at all give us happiness. But we are trying and trying, trying the same thing

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"So we are simply repeating the same thing. Same thing. We do not question that whether this process of life can at all give us happiness. But we are trying and trying, trying the same thing"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

The example, which I gave you the last day, that as sugarcane, one has extracted all the juice by chewing, and it is again thrown into the, on the earth, and somebody is chewing, so there is no juice. So we are simply repeating the same thing. Same thing. We do not question that whether this process of life can at all give us happiness. But we are trying and trying, trying the same thing.

So those who are in the sense of his real constitution . . . of their real constitutional position, as Bhagavad-gītā started from the very beginning . . . this very conception, that "I am this body," beginning from, beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā this is discredited, that "You are not this body." So you have . . . you have to mold your life in your identification of spiritual existence.

So, so far the materialist is concerned, they are chewing the chewed. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām (SB 7.5.30).

The example, which I gave you the last day, that as sugarcane, one has extracted all the juice by chewing, and it is again thrown into the, on the earth, and somebody is chewing, so there is no juice. So we are simply repeating the same thing. Same thing. We do not question that whether this process of life can at all give us happiness. But we are trying and trying, trying the same thing.

The ultimate purpose of sense gratification and the highest, topmost sense gratification is sex life. So we are trying, chewing, eschewing, you see, extracting. But that is not the process of happiness. The happiness is different. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam (BG 6.21).

Page Title:So we are simply repeating the same thing. We do not question whether this process of life can at all give us happiness. But we are trying and trying, trying the same thing
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-30, 15:49:17
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1