True sense
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
SB Canto 2
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Teachings of Lord Caitanya
Correspondence
1947 to 1965 Correspondence
2) Do you like to take your birth again? 3) Do you like to be an old man? 4) Do you like to be a diseased man? I am sure you shall reply to all these questions by saying the only word "No. If you think yourself happy then have you solved all the above problems in any way? Have your vast resources of material knowledge helped you in solving these seemingly common but very big problems? Do you think that you shall ever be able to solve the above problems at any length of time? If you say so, I shall again call you in abnormal condition. So do not become a madman in false conviction. Do not remain in ignorance for your problems. Be just like a fully developed conscious man and acknowledge that you have never been happy in the true sense of the term neither your ideal of happiness has ever been fulfilled.
The way in which you are seeking to be happy or trying to make others happy in your manufactured ideology—is called Maya or illusion. By such illusory way of making yourself and others happy, you have simply been credited with creation of much disturbances and entanglement for all concerned. That is the record of history of the material world. Empire may come and empire may go, the problems of life remains the same. Please therefore be cool headed and patiently ask within yourself if you are really happy.1970 Correspondence
Page Title: | True sense |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Vraj Kishori |
Created: | 22 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=4, CC=1, OB=1, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=2 |
No. of Quotes: | 9 |