SB 05.05.01 nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke... cited (Con & Let)

Expressions researched:
"One should engage in penance and austerity" |"brahma-saukhyam" |"kastan kaman arhate vid-bhujam ye" |"nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke" |"tapo divyam"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "5.5.1" or "One should engage in penance and austerity" or "brahma-saukhyam" or "kastan kaman arhate vid-bhujam ye" or "nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke" or "tapo divyam"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Lecture on BG 1.23 -- London, July 19, 1973:

One is by nature ānandamaya. We are searching after ānanda, bliss, but we do not know where to get bliss. We are trying to get bliss in this material world by eating meat, eating wine, drinking wine, by sex. They are trying to get ānanda. That is not ānanda. Ānanda is what is satyānanda. These ānandas, these pleasures—flickering, for few minutes, for few hours. That is not ānanda. Ānanda means satyānanda, real ānanda, real ānanda. What is that real ānanda? Brahma-sukha. That ānanda is in exchange with the Supreme Brahman. Brahma-saukhyam anantam (SB 5.5.1). That is anantam, unlimited ānanda. Therefore ramante yoginaḥ anante (CC Madhya 9.29). Therefore those who are actually yogis, bhakti-yogīs... There are different types of yoga. So they ramante, they enjoy, ramante yoginaḥ anante, along with the ananta, unlimited. Kṛṣṇa is unlimited. When you join with Kṛṣṇa in His rāsa dance as gopīs, or as cowherds boy, play with Him, or become His father and mother, Yaśodā, Nanda Mahārāja, Yaśodā-rāṇī, or become servant, or even become like water Yamunā, or land in Vṛndāvana and trees or fruits or flowers, any way, or cows and calves... Join with Kṛṣṇa. Then you get ānanda, real ānanda.