To come to the so-called conditional happiness we have to undergo so many difficulties, and when we come to that position . . . suppose after working very, very hard I get one million dollars, so I will not be allowed to enjoy this one million dollar for all the days. Aśāśvatam. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). Kṛṣṇa says that this place is full of miseries. To get that one million dollar you have to undergo so many miserable condition of life. And even if you get it . . . perhaps you may not get it. Everyone is trying, but they cannot . . . everyone is not getting. Who is destined to get, he is getting, not that everyone, because he . . . one is trying very hard, it is guaranteed that he will get one million dollar. That is not possible. That one who is to get by destiny. This is the śāstra. Actually, this is the fact.
Therefore Vedic civilization does not recommend that you waste your valuable life simply for so-called happiness or economic . . . improvement of economic condition. Because it is not possible that everyone trying for improving economic condition and everyone is becoming millionaire. No. That is not possible. You cannot get more or less what you are destined to get. Otherwise, everyone would have been millionaires—everyone. In Bombay there are so many. People are trying, working very hard at day and night. Still, somebody is living in a very nice, palatial building and somebody is living in the jhupaṛa, or what is that, most abominable condition, in Bombay city. Why? Because one is destined.