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Sukham atyantikam yat tat buddhi-grahyam atindriyam. Atindriyam. Atindriyam means you have to transcend these material senses. Then you can actually appreciate what is happiness

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"Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tat buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam. Atīndriyam. Atīndriyam means you have to transcend these material senses. Then you can actually appreciate what is happiness"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Now the conclusion is that that spiritual spark is not impersonal. It is actually personal. The soul is actual person. As God is actual personal, similarly, because we are part and parcel of the Supreme, therefore, if I am a person, then God must be person. God is the father of everyone. Now, if I am the son—I have got personality; I have got individuality—how can you deny the individuality and personality of the Supreme Lord? These things require intelligence. Intelligence. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tat buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam. Atīndriyam. Atīndriyam means you have to transcend these material senses. Then you can actually appreciate what is happiness.

The dead body no more can enjoy. Suppose if a man is offered a dead body of a beautiful woman, will he accept? Or a woman is offered the dead body of a beautiful man, will she accept? No. Because that enjoying spark is moved now. That requires intelligence. Who is enjoying? Who is enjoying? The enjoying, the enjoying spirit. The spirit is enjoying, not this body. That requires intelligence.

Then again . . . now, if that spirit is enjoying, then the spirit must have enjoying senses also. Otherwise, how it can enjoy? If you have no enjoying sense organ, then how you can enjoy? A drunk cannot enjoy. Therefore it is accepted that the spirit soul, although it is very small, atomic, we cannot measure . . . several times I have repeated here that the measurement of the small, infinitesimal spirit spark is just one ten-thousandth part of the upper portion of your hair. It is so small. But that does not mean . . . just like we are incapable to measure something, we define that "Point has no length, no breadth." But actually it is not a fact. If you see a point with microscope, you'll find the point has increased to one inch round, and it has got length and breadth. Similarly, we have no capacity to make a measurement of the soul, but there is measurement.

And there are senses of that spiritual spark. There are. Without having this . . . without the spiritual spark having the senses, how this body is grown? This body is just like dress. When we speak of dress, the dress is made according to your body. If you go to a tailor, the tailor will take measurement of your body and the dress will be supplied to you, fit. Similarly, unless that spiritual spark has got body, how this, I mean the dress of this material tabernacle has grown? This requires intelligence.

Now the conclusion is that that spiritual spark is not impersonal. It is actually personal. The soul is actual person. As God is actual personal, similarly, because we are part and parcel of the Supreme, therefore, if I am a person, then God must be person. God is the father of everyone. Now, if I am the son—I have got personality; I have got individuality—how can you deny the individuality and personality of the Supreme Lord? These things require intelligence. Intelligence. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tat buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam. Atīndriyam. Atīndriyam means you have to transcend these material senses. Then you can actually appreciate what is happiness.

Just like the other day I explained the happiness of the yogī. Ramante yoginaḥ anante satyānande cid-ātmani (CC Madhya 9.29). Ramante yoginaḥ anante. The yogī, those who are transcendentalist aspiring after spiritual life, they are called yogī: bhakti-yogī, jñāna-yogī, dhyāna-yogī. There are so many departments of yogī. Now, they also enjoy. The whole process is to concentrate upon the viṣṇu-mūrti, Viṣṇu form, within the heart. And unless there is pleasure—there is no enjoyment—what is the use of controlling the senses and focusing the mind on the Supreme Supersoul within the heart?

Page Title:Sukham atyantikam yat tat buddhi-grahyam atindriyam. Atindriyam. Atindriyam means you have to transcend these material senses. Then you can actually appreciate what is happiness
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-21, 10:17:06
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1