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As soon as you get your spiritual body, then there is unlimited happiness

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Ṛṣabhadeva says, sattvaṁ yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam. As soon as you get your spiritual body, then there is unlimited happiness. We are, after all . . . in the Vedānta-sūtra it is said that the living entity or God, both of them are for enjoying life, blissful life.

In the Western countries, to give up these habit is little difficult. Because about forty years ago, one of my brother, Godbrother, came to London, and he had a talk with Marquis of Zetland, and the Lord inquired from him whether he can be converted into a brāhmaṇa. He inquired from my Godbrother whether he can be made into a brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa. So our Godbrother said: "Yes, you can be converted into a brāhmaṇa if you give up these habits, namely illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling." The gentleman's reply, Lord Zetland: "It is impossible." So that means he was not prepared to accept the tapasya, voluntarily abnegation.

But here Ṛṣabhadeva says that the human life is meant for tapasya, and not for living like pigs, hogs and dogs. Next He says, tapo divyam (SB 5.5.1), because tapasya means to accept voluntarily some painful situation. It is not very much painful, but they consider. But we are undergoing already some painful situation working day and night. To satisfy the senses, that also requires tapasya, hard labor. But here Ṛṣabhadeva says that you accept some painful condition—it is not at all painful, but it appears—tapo divyam, for God realization. (break) . . . that everyone is working hard day and night, but that is for sense gratification. Similarly, if you take little trouble, if you accept voluntarily some painful condition for realizing God, divyam, that is the human mission.

Now the question may be raised that both ways, I have to accept some painful situation, so why shall I accept painful situation for realizing God? For material sense gratification, although I am working very hard, I am getting, immediately, some pleasure, sense pleasure. So why shall I work hard or accept some painful situation for realizing God, which is unknown and fictitious to me? So the reply is, tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyed sattvam (SB 5.5.1): "My dear boys, if you accept a little trouble for realizing God, then your existentional condition will be purified." But what is the use of purifying? There is need. If you purify, purify yourself, existentional condition, then you will be saved from the four kinds of troubles or miseries of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease.

So God realization means spiritual realization. So Ṛṣabhadeva says, tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyed (SB 5.5.1): by purification of your existentional condition you enjoy brahma-saukhyam. After all, we are searching after happiness, pleasure. So on account of our impure existential condition, our so-called happiness is temporary. Brahma-saukhyam means, here again, yena sattvaṁ śuddhyed, when your existence is purified. Now we have got impure existence, this material body. When we get our spiritual body, that is called purified.

So Ṛṣabhadeva says, sattvaṁ yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam. As soon as you get your spiritual body, then there is unlimited happiness. We are, after all . . . in the Vedānta-sūtra it is said that the living entity or God, both of them are for enjoying life, blissful life. Just like when you are diseased, you have got some fever, so you cannot enjoy life. Similarly, in this diseased condition of material existence we, actually, we cannot enjoy life. Therefore, if we purify our existentional condition by tapasya, then we come into our spiritual existence and we can enjoy our life eternally. (break) . . . therefore, that when we have got this human form of life, we shall not waste it simply for sense gratification like the dogs and hog. We should practice tapasya, restrain, and then we purify our existence, and we are situated in a position wherein we can enjoy blissful life forever.

Page Title:As soon as you get your spiritual body, then there is unlimited happiness
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-14, 07:08:53
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