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Preyah means immediately pleasing. And sreyah means ultimately benefit, benediction

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"Preyaḥ means immediately pleasing. And śreyaḥ means ultimately benefit, benediction"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Śreyaḥ and preyaḥ; there are two things. One is called preyaḥ. Preyaḥ means immediately pleasing. And śreyaḥ means ultimately benefit, benediction. Generally, conditioned souls, they are attracted with immediate pleasing things. Just like children: they are attracted by playthings more than education. They do not like to go to school. They like to play the whole day.

Śreyaḥ and preyaḥ; there are two things. One is called preyaḥ. Preyaḥ means immediately pleasing. And śreyaḥ means ultimately benefit, benediction. Generally, conditioned souls, they are attracted with immediate pleasing things. Just like children: they are attracted by playthings more than education. They do not like to go to school. They like to play the whole day.

In my childhood also, I was very naughty boy, and I was not going to school. And my mother kept a special man to drag me to the school. At that time, there was no system like in your country, school buses. One had to go to school on foot. So my father was very lenient. I was not going to school. Preyaḥ, pleasing. Children like to play. Similarly, there are two paths, śreyaḥ and preyaḥ.

So śreyaḥ means . . . preyaḥ means sense gratification. We have got our senses, material senses, and we want to satisfy them without any consideration the sequence, the bad results of sense gratification. In the Bhāgavatam there is one passage in which it is stated that yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham (SB 7.9.45).

Persons who are conditioned in the society, friendship and love, this is the attraction for material life. "Society, friendship and love," they think, "divinely bestowed upon man." But that, it is not divinely bestowed upon man. From spiritual point of view, it is the gift of māyā. Society, friendship and love is the gift of māyā, illusion. Actually, the society with which we associate, and friendship which we make here, and so-called love, how long? Now, supposing I am now in human society. How long I shall remain in human society? I am preparing for my next life, or the next society. I may be transferred to dog society. And I may transfer . . . I may be transferred to god society. That will depend on my work.

So we like society, friendship. Oh, I do not know how many intimate friendship I had, but those are now just like dream, everything finished. Now I am making new friendships with your countrymen, with you younger boys of this country, and I have forgotten the friendship which I made the whole life in India. So this friendship, this love, this society, this country—everything illusion, just like dream. At night we dream, "Oh, I have been made a king," and in the morning I see everything finished.

Page Title:Preyah means immediately pleasing. And sreyah means ultimately benefit, benediction
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-12, 12:19:42
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