Why Suffer When Life Is Meant for Enjoyment?

Why is it that even though life is meant for enjoyment that practically everyone in this material world is miserable? Even the wealthy, famous, and successful are miserable, so what to speak of those who are struggling every day like beasts of burden simply to fill their bellies and get a place to lie down and sleep at night. The reason that misery has become the common denominator of the human society is that everyone has a false conception of who they are. Everyone wants self-satisfaction, but since they do not know what is the actual self, even though they endeavor ever so strenuously for satisfaction, they never actually achieve it. It is something like trying to build up your bank balance by making deposits into the wrong account. It will never be successful. So if you want actual satisfaction, you need to know scientifically who are as an eternal spiritual being and then always act for your ultimate welfare by reviving your lost loving relationship with the Supreme Spirit, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

"Life is Meant for Enjoyment" Lecture
The University of Mauritius--12 December 2011

Sankarshan Das "Life is Meant for Enjoyment" Lecture The University of Mauritius

The Students Took Our Message Quite Seriously

Sankarshan Das "Life is Meant for Enjoyment" Lecture The University of Mauritius

Sankarshan Das "Life is Meant for Enjoyment" Lecture The University of Mauritius

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Does Initiation Guarantee Liberation?

Does initiation from the bona fide spiritual master guarantee that we will go back to Godhead? Or is it that we might take birth again, if we fall down? What if we do not fall down in spiritual progress?

Ravi K.

Answer: Only If One Strictly Follows Sri Guru

If you accept initiation and strictly follow your spiritual master's instructions, your going back to home at the end of this lifetime is assured. However, if you deviate from his instructions and maintain your material attachments, you will be facilitated by Lord Krishna to satisfy your material desires by being granted another birth in this material world. So the key is that, if one wants to become free from all material miseries for all of eternity, one should take complete shelter of the bona fide spiritual master and undeviatingly follow his instructions throughout one's entire life.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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