happiness

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So here is very nice description how we can materially become happy. These are all description of material happiness: svrddhaḥ, very flourished cities and towns. So how it is flourished? Now, supakvausadhi-virudhaḥ. The herbs and plants and trees and creepers, they are all luxuriously grown and sufficiently supply the needs of the human being. Every plant and creeper is useful for human being. We do not know how to use them. Experienced men, they collect so many ausadhi. Vanausadhi, lata loke jayate paramam hitam. We are neglecting these herbs and vegetables, but because we do not know how to use them, we have to meet so much bill of the doctors. But there are everything complete. (More...)

So if we want to be happy, these things are required. What is that? Ime jana-padaḥ svrddhaḥ. Jana-padaḥ, cities and towns, we require. Because we are human being, we cannot live in the forest. There are certain uncivilized human being, they are meant for living in the forest because they are not civilized. But civilized men, they require nice towns, cities, full of gardens, parks, and nice roads and paths, nice building. They're all described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam about the Dvaraka City, Mathura City, in the, those days. Still there are some samples. In Mathura you'll find that outside the city there are many gardens. The gardens... Formerly the guest, kings and big, big men, when they became guest, these garden houses were meant for them. We get this information from many literature, Vedic literature. (More...)

So anyway, we should be eager to become happy even in the cities and towns with the help of these things, ausadhi-virudhaḥ, then forests, adri, nadi. Nadi means not dirty nadi. Very clear water, and waves are flowing. By the modern civilization I have seen so many rivers in Europe, in Paris, in Moscow and in Germany-all rivers are very, very dirty. Very, very dirty. You cannot take bath, what to speak of drinking water. So dirty due to this rascal industry. Even in our New York, the bays and the seas, they're also polluted. All dirty things are there. How long the water will be clear? No. The rivers, at least the rivers in the city, they should be kept very clean. But they cannot keep clean because they have got so many dirty activities, enterprises, mills and factories. So in Calcutta also, the... There are so many jute mills and factories on the riverside. All the night soil, they are thrown into the Ganges. So still the Ganges is so powerful that it keeps clear. Hundreds and thousands people, still they take bath in the Ganges, and they keep very good health, those who are taking bath regularly in the Ganges. And cities and town, there must be a river. In India you'll find, all the important cities in India, they are on the bank of the Ganges, on the bank of the Yamuna, on the bank of the Narmada, Krsna, Kaveri, like that, all the important cities. And Canakya Panḍita says that "Don't go to a town and city where there is no river and where there is no friend and there is no temple. Don't go to that city. If there is no river, no friend and no temple, then that is... A great city is a great forest." So that is forbidden. (More...)

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