Prabhupāda: Nobody is happy. (break) Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it says, śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ (BG 2.14). Now, something is happiness; the same something is distress. So what is the standard of happiness? The same something is distress for another. One man's food, another man's poison. So where is the standard of happiness? What you are thinking "This is happiness," others are thinking "This is distress."
Paramahaṁsa: That's why we have this modern philosophy that whatever makes you feel good, you should do.
Prabhupāda: No, then everyone is doing . . . (indistinct)
Śrutakīrti: In this world everything is relative, so it's not expected that the same things will please everyone.
Prabhupāda: Then why do you put something as happiness standard or distress standard? So everything is everything, that's all. (laughs) Why do you try to put a standard?
Amogha: We try to simply make the facility if a person wants to change his position.
Prabhupāda: So why you are so much busy in trying like that? Why you are waste your time? You make your own . . .
Śrutakīrti: But that is his happiness. Giving facility to others is what makes me happy.
Prabhupāda: No, he doesn't want to . . . just like if you want to give facility to the hippies—"Please come in nice home"—he will not accept.
Śrutakīrti: No, but we don't want to give to the hippies.
Prabhupāda: Then what is the meaning?
Paramahaṁsa: For those who want . . .
Prabhupāda: You cannot give happiness to everyone according to standard. Then unhappiness will continue, so what is the use of your wasting time? Because you cannot give happiness to everyone, what you think, "It is happiness," others will not accept it. Then where is the happiness?
Amogha: We can give them what they want, and that will make them happy.
Prabhupāda: It is contradictory. One mans want poison; you give him poison. One mans wants food, you give him food. Then what is the standard of your food or poison? Then everything is required. Why do you bother?
Amogha: Well, we have to draw the line somewhere.
Prabhupāda: You can do it foolishly. That is another thing. But everything is all right. Poison is all right, and food is all right.