These perception of material happiness and distress is due to the skin. Just like in severe cold when there is snow falling you feel too much afflicted by the cold. Or the scorch heating you are too much afflicted. That affliction is not to be due to the heat and cold but due to your body. You cannot bear, or you will find some other animal, they are I mean to say, loitering in the street without any coat.
So that sort of distress and happiness is due to your body. Not actually the water is distress or happiness, water is sometimes distressful, sometimes happy. In the summer season if you take your bath you will feel very nice, water is very nice and in the cold season, oh it is very severe.
So water is neither severe nor distressful nor happiness it is your body according to the constitution of certain body we feel certain kind of distress and happiness in this material world but what is the remedy? Remedy is to tolerate. Just like you go to office even there is snowfall, even there is severe cold you cannot stop your working, you have to go. You tolerate.
Similarly you have to tolerate, even there are some material distress and happiness, so-called distress and happiness you have to tolerate but your main business is to, how to elevate yourself to the spiritual platform. That should be your main business. You should not be disturbed by the so called material happiness or distress. Your aim or mission of life is to be, how to understand yourself your relationship with God. How to understand what is God, that is your mission.