Even there are distress in this material world, we should learn to tolerate because these are ephemeral. They are not neither real distress, neither real happiness. We should be callous either of this happiness or distress.
So our question should be this: “I am eternal, so why have I been put into this temporary life?” This is an intelligent question. And this is our real problem. But rascals set aside this real problem. They are thinking of how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, how to defend. Even if you eat nicely and sleep nicely, ultimately you have to die. The problem of death is there. But they don’t care about this real problem. They are very much alert to solve the temporary problems, which are not actually problems at all. The birds and beasts also eat, sleep, have sexual intercourse, and defend themselves. They know how to do all these things, even without the human beings’ education and so-called civilization. So these things are not our real problems. The real problem is that we do not want to die but death takes place. This is our real problem.
But the rascals do not know it. They are always busy with temporary problems. For example, suppose there is severe cold. This is a problem. We have to search out a nice coat or a fireplace, and if these are not available we are in distress. So severe cold is a problem. But it is a temporary problem. Severe cold, winter, has come, and it will go. It is not a permanent problem. My permanent problem is that because of ignorance I am taking birth, I am accepting disease, I am accepting old age, and I am accepting death. These are my real problems. Therefore Krsna says, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam: Those who are actually in knowledge see these four problems—birth, death, old age, and disease.
In October 1973, Dr. Gregory Benford, an associate professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine, visits Srila Prabhupada in the garden of the Los Angeles Krsna center. In the course of their intriguing discussion about the possibility of scientific understanding of the soul, Srila Prabhupada declares, “We don’t say that this scientific knowledge is useless. Mechanics, electronics—this is also knowledge. .. but the central point is atma-jnana—self-knowledge, knowledge of the soul.”
pamho agtACBSP,
All these biped citizens of our kalo sudra society say we don’t believe to the law of karma we just believe to the material and temporary comforts and what to say about the eternal vision which is the first stage to realize sat then cit then we can get ananda through sreya and not preya. The vikarmi are thinking they are the winners because of their temporary comforts they don’t know that a lot of suffering is already stored for them by neglecting to find out the blissful eternal and spiritual body created by Sri Krsna. They get children also but all these varna sankara children become their own bad karma they belong to the subhuman society by eating stink stools pass stink stools, therefore they are not better then stink stools through their ghostly fake refletions, and this is what they are going to become in their next life. After finishing the training in patala-loka they can be promoted to get pig hog bitches and dogs forms after all.
Sri yamunacarya used to say since i’m engaged in bhakti yoga whenever a sexual desire come within my mind i get immediately disgusted – this is the real bhakti yoga, a lot of mudhas never get disgusted by this maya sukaya temporary comforts because they are not practicing the real bhakti yoga by serving the betrayers and murders of our beloved acharya. In this case hypocrisy welcome i mean we must ignore all these ignorant people by avoiding to challenge them through our eternal vision that they lost through temporary comforts.
Therefore we are the winners and they are the losers although materially it looks like if the situation is situated in the opposite side, but we must keep strong with SRILA PRABHUPADA’s divine teaching by not disturbing them to go to the hell as they wish.
agtSP ys haribol