Prabhupāda: . . . come to the light of the sun, immediately you get out of your room and get, immediately. Similarly, although God is far, far away, He is everywhere at the same time. That is God's nature. Simply we have to agree that, "Now I shall realize . . ."
(break) . . . without any difficulty, very easily. Sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje, yayātmā suprasīdati (SB 1.2.6).
And without spiritual realization you cannot have peace of mind. That is impossible. If you want to make . . . if you want to have peace of this soul, of your mind, of your society, of your family, simply by amassing money, by material advance, it will never be possible. But if you improve a little in spiritual life, you become immediately happy.
So your business is how to become happy, because by nature you are happy. Diseased condition, that happiness being checked. So this is our diseased condition, this material, conditional life, this body. So as one intelligent person puts himself under the treatment of a physician to get out of the disease, similarly, human life is meant for putting himself to the expert physician who can cure you from your material disease. That is your business. Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam (SB 11.3.21).
That is the injunction of all Vedic literature. Just like Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa is teaching Arjuna. Arjuna is surrendering to Kṛṣṇa, śiṣyas te 'ham sädhi māṁ prapannam (BG 2.7)
"My dear Kṛṣṇa, so long I was speaking with You just as friends. Now I surrender unto You as Your student, as Your disciple. You become my spiritual master and teach me properly." This is the process. Arjuna is exampling himself that he's accepting Kṛṣṇa as the spiritual master, teacher. And then Kṛṣṇa began to teach the Bhagavad-gītā, and he changed his decision, and he was freed from all anxieties. This is spiritual life.
So this spiritual realization is easier than any kind of material realization. Because we are not meant for material realization. We are meant for spiritual realization, the human form. So that we should take advantage of. That is the mission of human form of life. If we miss this, then we are committing suicide.
Go on.
Puruṣottama: So the reason why material progress doesn't work simply because everything in the material world is temporary. Nothing is actually real, nothing is permanent, it's a reflection of reality. The reality is actually spiritual, you can't find something real, you can't find something permanent in a temporary situation.
An example is that if you see the reflection of some fruit in a mirror and it looks very nice and you become very hungry and if we try to get the fruit. So you're not going to get it, no matter how hard you try. This is the material advancement, this is the material content, you're looking for eternal happiness, looking for a permanent solution to all your problems but you're turning to a reflection of reality.
Your not at the real thing, real happiness is not even in the material world. People think that, "If I had a car, if I had a beautiful wife, if I had this or that then I'll be happy." Actually it's a reflection, it's just trying to get off the mirror. Trying to get the fruit through the mirror. It doesn't work that way you have to be intelligent enough to realise this is not real. It's just a reflection and you must turn and face to the real fruit.
It's behind you, you couldn't see it but you must turn around that's what Kṛṣṇa consciousness is. It's turning to Kṛṣṇa, it's turning to the reality everyone in the material world is so intent, just fix the mind, I must get the fruit, I must get . . . I must have happiness, I must have success, I must have this I must have that. And then they don't use their intelligence they are so deluded by the illusion of the mirror they can't think correctly. They don't realise this is simply an illusion.
The process of turning to reality, the process is very simple. Simply if we hear, simply hear about Kṛṣṇa come to this temple and hear of Kṛṣṇa's name in chanting. Hear about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, hear about the words of Kṛṣṇa as he spoke Bhagavad-gītā and this is . . . this is turning to Kṛṣṇa. This is what it means to turn to Kṛṣṇa-through your ears. Through your mind, your consciousness, just to engage in Kṛṣṇa. Return to reality and then you will see as all the devotees here see. It's a permanent solution and permanent happiness. It is not just temporary it's not a reflection.
Mahārāja Parīkṣit was a great saintly King, he found out that he was going to die in seven days. So he sought out Śukadeva Gosvāmī a great saintly person and he asked him about what is the absolute truth. What is Kṛṣṇa? And Śukadeva Gosvāmī the great Saint said: "You have asked the most intelligent question. You have asked about Kṛṣṇa. You've asked about the absolute truth." This is the most intelligent thing we can do. All day long everyone is asking questions, every second there is a question coming in our mind. And in the next second there is an answer. This goes on and on eternally.
In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam-our spiritual master wrote that even the birds and the trees every second there is question and answer on and on. Where will I get food next, how will I do this how will I do that. Always questions and answers, there is no end to them. Until you ask about Kṛṣṇa until you ask that final question. The question about the absolute truth and this brings you to the ultimate answer and that answer is that you are the servant of God.