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We keep always in view that in this material existence there are four kinds of miserable condition, primarily, and to stop this. Duhkhalayam asasvatam (BG 8.15). So everyone's aim is duhkha-nivrtti

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"We keep always in view that in this material existence there are four kinds of miserable condition, primarily, and to stop this. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam" |"So everyone's aim is duḥkha-nivṛtti"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Duḥkha mean pain, and nivṛtti, nivṛtti means stop. Why people go to the church? Because they feel some pain, they go to church or temple to appeal, "If there is somebody as God . . ." They think like that. "Let me appeal to the Supreme Person so that my distress may be mitigated." So aim is ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti. We are also cultivating this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Our aim is also the same: duḥkha-nivṛtti. Kṛṣṇa says, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9). We keep always in view that in this material existence there are four kinds of miserable condition, primarily, and to stop this. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). So everyone's aim is duḥkha-nivṛtti. It may be presented in a different ways. So the Buddha philosophy is also duḥkha-nivṛtti, stop pains.

atha cainaṁ nitya-jātaṁ
nityaṁ vā manyase mṛtam
tathāpi tvaṁ mahā-bāho
nainaṁ śocitum arhasi
(BG 2.26)

So Kṛṣṇa is putting forward the modern scientific view. The modern scientific view is that there is no soul; life is generated from matter. By combination of material elements at a . . . just like chemical combination. You mix acid and soda, alkaline acid, there will be some reaction, effervescence, movement. Similarly, the Buddhist philosophy, mostly they do not believe in the existence of the soul. The Buddhist philosopher thinks that the combination of matter makes a living symptom. Their ultimate goal is nirvāṇa. Nirvāṇa means stop this combination. Due to this combination, we feel pains and pleasure. Therefore, if we disintegrate the combination, there will be no more pains and pleasure. Materialistic.

Their solution, pains and pleasure . . . any philosophy or any religious system ultimately aims at ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti. Duḥkha mean pain, and nivṛtti, nivṛtti means stop. Why people go to the church? Because they feel some pain, they go to church or temple to appeal, "If there is somebody as God . . ." They think like that. "Let me appeal to the Supreme Person so that my distress may be mitigated." So aim is ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti. We are also cultivating this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Our aim is also the same: duḥkha-nivṛtti. Kṛṣṇa says, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9). We keep always in view that in this material existence there are four kinds of miserable condition, primarily, and to stop this. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). So everyone's aim is duḥkha-nivṛtti. It may be presented in a different ways. So the Buddha philosophy is also duḥkha-nivṛtti, stop pains.

Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). We are, by nature, we want blissfulness. But we do not know how to become actually happy and blissful. That is ignorance. In the material world, they also want to enjoy, everyone. They are thinking that "This wine, woman, meat-eating, gambling, intoxication, these things will give me pleasure." So ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti. The Bhāgavata says that ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti, means ultimate solution of miserable condition, is in the fact that we realize God and we go back to home, back to Godhead. This is our philosophy. And persons who cannot understand what is God, what is kingdom of God, they want to adjust. The aim is the same, ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti, ultimately solution of all miseries, in a different way.

Page Title:We keep always in view that in this material existence there are four kinds of miserable condition, primarily, and to stop this. Duhkhalayam asasvatam (BG 8.15). So everyone's aim is duhkha-nivrtti
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-11-12, 06:00:04
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1