They Do Not Know Who They Are
In this material world no one knows who they are. They think that they are their bodies. No wonder that frustration and misery and so widespread throughout the human society. How can someone be satisfied when they do not understand who they are?
People temporarily derive artificial happiness by a false sense of being the lord of all they survey. But such illusory happiness is temporary at best. How long can someone successfully consider themselves to be the lord of all they survey when all of their plans for material happiness and being eroded by sickness, old age, and a gradual withering away of the material body to the point of death? In the light of the miserable nature of the material energy, it is simply amazing how stubbornly people cling to the false notion of being its enjoyers.
To derive actual happiness one must come to factual platform of existence, the spiritual platform. But being misled by so many unqualified leaders, people are lacking scientific understanding of the transcendental nature of the self. And hence the people unnecessarily suffer lifetime after lifetime in this prison-like material existence. They could become free at any time, but due to a poor fund of knowledge they continue suffering. We want to help them. We want to save them. But they proudly think that they know better than Krishna. What can be done? When we try to enlighten them, they reject our help.
And why not, its a great sattvic life!
Please comment.
Yours in truth,
Alf
Such attachment is the perfection of detachment because it permanently detaches one from this material existence. Other types of detachment are only temporary. They cannot be permanently maintained.
Serving the order of one's spiritual master is more than sattvic. There is sattva guna, the material mode of goodness. And there is suddha sattva, pure goodness. The material mode of goodness is sometimes tinged by traces of passion and/or ignorance. But suddha sattva, the mode of pure goodness, is 100% free of any tinges of passion and/or ignorance. Serving the bona fide spiritual master elevates the disciple to the mode of pure goodness, suddha sattva. While the mode of goodness qualifies one to begin the spiritual path, pure goodness is the culmination of that path.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
People temporarily derive artificial happiness by a false sense of being the lord of all they survey. But such illusory happiness is temporary at best. How long can someone successfully consider themselves to be the lord of all they survey when all of their plans for material happiness and being eroded by sickness, old age, and a gradual withering away of the material body to the point of death? In the light of the miserable nature of the material energy, it is simply amazing how stubbornly people cling to the false notion of being its enjoyers.
To derive actual happiness one must come to factual platform of existence, the spiritual platform. But being misled by so many unqualified leaders, people are lacking scientific understanding of the transcendental nature of the self. And hence the people unnecessarily suffer lifetime after lifetime in this prison-like material existence. They could become free at any time, but due to a poor fund of knowledge they continue suffering. We want to help them. We want to save them. But they proudly think that they know better than Krishna. What can be done? When we try to enlighten them, they reject our help.
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Comment: Sounds Like You Are Attached...
I know its subtle, but it sounds like you are attached to "this life" as a missionary when you state, "I wouldn't trade this life for anything."And why not, its a great sattvic life!
Please comment.
Yours in truth,
Alf
Answer: The Perfection of Detachment...
My only attachment is to satisfying my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I can stay in one place or I can travel. It does not matter. But since he has ordered me to travel and preach, it is natural that I would feel great satisfaction by doing so. When the spiritual master is satisfied, the disciple is satisfied.Such attachment is the perfection of detachment because it permanently detaches one from this material existence. Other types of detachment are only temporary. They cannot be permanently maintained.
Serving the order of one's spiritual master is more than sattvic. There is sattva guna, the material mode of goodness. And there is suddha sattva, pure goodness. The material mode of goodness is sometimes tinged by traces of passion and/or ignorance. But suddha sattva, the mode of pure goodness, is 100% free of any tinges of passion and/or ignorance. Serving the bona fide spiritual master elevates the disciple to the mode of pure goodness, suddha sattva. While the mode of goodness qualifies one to begin the spiritual path, pure goodness is the culmination of that path.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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