Now, the stage of sannyāsa, just like we have adopted, this is a practical example how much one has been able to become free from bodily affection. This is a chance. This is a chance given. Just like at home I have my wife, I have my children, I have my grandchildren, everyone—I have my daughters and everyone—but somehow or other, I have thought that "What is this relation?" Therefore I have been able to live aloof from these bodily rela . . . relatives. And actually, in this old age, one should desire to live within the family with wife, with children, and there are so many comforts. But no. This should be . . . the development of one's consciousness is that he should voluntarily, voluntarily try to, I mean to say, become free from this affection.
Why? This affection is not bad, but this affection will lead me again to have another body. My whole process is that how to get out of this bodily relation, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9)
The whole human activities should be concentrated to get rid of this bodily, material bodily connection. Then I shall be happy really. Real happiness, real freedom. That is real freedom. For want of this spiritual knowledge, we do not know how much free we are.
Even in this material world, within this universe, in the upper planets . . . the upper planets, they are called heavens or . . . of course, in Vedic language, it is called heaven, and in other languages it is also called heaven. But there are many planets. Beyond the heaven, there are many good planets. There are seven planetary systems. This is called Bhūrloka.
Then, above this, there is Bhuvarloka. Then there is Svargaloka. Then there is Tapoloka. Then there is Maharloka. Then there is Satyaloka. Just like so many planetary systems there are. The one planetary system, that is called Siddhaloka. Even in this material world, with this material body, they are so perfect that here you go from one place to another, or one planet to another . . .