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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Don't try to elevate yourself materially. That will not make you happy. Just try to get out of these material clutches and begin your spiritual life. That will make you happy. That is the only source of happiness. Otherwise it is not. The same example, that if you are put into the ocean—you may be very good swimmer—it will be great struggle; you can keep yourself floating; but that is not happiness. Happiness is different thing.
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[[Vanisource:741220 - Lecture SB 03.26.08 - Bombay|741220 - Lecture SB 03.26.08 - Bombay]]:
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Our business is to pray to Kṛṣṇa to get me out of this struggling, hard struggle for existence in this material world. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaching us this prayer, no other prayer. ''Ayi nanda-tanuja patitaṁ kiṅkaraṁ māṁ viṣame bhavāmbudhau'' ([[vanisource:CC Antya 20.32|CC Antya 20.32, ''Śikṣāṣṭaka'' 5]]): "O Kṛṣṇa . . ." Kṛṣṇa is very pleased when we address Him with His devotee. Nanda Mahārāja is devotee playing as the father of Kṛṣṇa. So therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu is addressing Kṛṣṇa, ''ayi nanda-tanuja'': "Kṛṣṇa, You are born out of the body of Mahārāja Nanda." This is very pleasing to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore He is addressing, ''ayi nanda-tanuja, patitaṁ kiṅkaraṁ māṁ viṣame. Patitaṁ kiṅkaram. Kiṅkaram'' means servant. "I am Your eternal servant, but somehow or other, I am now fallen in this ocean of nescience, repeated birth and death." ''Patitaṁ kiṅkaraṁ māṁ viṣame bhavāmbudhau. Kṛpayā'': "By Your causeless mercy, because I am servant . . . I have somehow or other fallen." ''Kṛpayā tava pāda-paṅkaja-sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśaṁ vicintaya'': "Kindly fix me again as one of the dust particle in Your lotus feet." This prayer has been tak . . .

So we cannot be happy in this ''puruṣa'' mentality to enjoy this material world. We can never be happy. ''Ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 8.16 (1972)|BG 8.16]]). Even if you are . . . now, just like they are trying to go to the moon planet. But what this moon planet? It is very near. Even if you go to the topmost planet, ''ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna'' ([[vanisource:BG 8.16 (1972)|BG 8.16]]), the struggle will go on. You cannot be happy. Either you go to the heavenly planet or the moon planet or the Brahmā planet, anywhere in this material world, the four things—birth, death, old age and disease—will go on. You cannot stop it. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that, "Don't try to be elevated to the higher planetary system, to the moon planet or sun planet or heavenly planet. Try to come to Me." ''Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama'' ([[vanisource:BG 15.6 (1972)|BG 15.6]]).

This should be our endeavor. Don't try to elevate yourself materially. That will not make you happy. Just try to get out of these material clutches and begin your spiritual life. That will make you happy. That is the only source of happiness. Otherwise it is not. The same example, that if you are put into the ocean—you may be very good swimmer—it will be great struggle—you can keep yourself floating, but that is not happiness. Happiness is different thing. If you want happiness, then you have to give up the association of ''prakṛti. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya'' ([[vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). Because as so long you will be in the material world, you will have to associate with some of the modes of material nature, ''sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa''. By association with the ''sattva-guṇa'' material modes of nature, ''ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthāḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 14.18 (1972)|BG 14.18]]), you can be elevated to the higher planetary system, or by ''jaghanya-guṇa-vṛtti-sthā adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 14.18 (1972)|BG 14.18]]), by associate in the ''tamo-guṇa'', you will be put downwards either in the animal forms of life or lower planetary system. In this way you are wandering up and down. Give up this business. Kṛṣṇa says: "Surrender unto Me." You surrender to Kṛṣṇa and be happy.