So-called happiness (Books)

Expressions researched:
"so-called happiness" |"so-called feeling of happiness" |"so-called manifestations of happiness" |

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

BG 3.39, Purport: Therefore, this lust is the symbol of ignorance by which the living entity is kept within the material world. While one enjoys sense gratification, it may be that there is some feeling of happiness, but actually that so-called feeling of happiness is the ultimate enemy of the sense enjoyer.

BG Chapters 13 - 18

BG 18.36, Purport: In other words, a conditioned soul is always engaged in some type of sense gratification, but when he understands by good association that it is only a repetition of the same thing, and he is awakened to his real Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is sometimes relieved from such repetitive so-called happiness.

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 1

SB 1.3.8, Purport: The reaction of good work is comparative material prosperity, whereas the reaction of bad work is comparative material distress. But material conditions, either in so-called happiness or in so-called distress, are all meant ultimately for distress only. Foolish materialists have no information of how to obtain eternal happiness in the unconditional state.