we all want it

So if one is intelligent enough, he will understand by association of sadhus that this material life is not happy at all, but we want happiness. That is a fact. Every one of us, we are searching after happiness. Atyantika-duḥkha-nivrttiḥ. Duḥkha means unhappiness, and nivrtti means decreasing or completely avoiding. But that is not possible. Everyone... This morning I was talking that everyone who have come on this beach just to mitigate some trouble. So many people are exercising, throwing the hand, throwing the leg or something, but because there is some trouble. Because there is some trouble. Not that because they have come in car, very rich man... But still, he is throwing his hands and legs and something like that. So we have to study like that. We should be intelligent, that there is nobody happy in this material world. Nobody happy in this material... But by the illusion of maya he is thinking, "I am happy." That is called maya. Ato grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair janasya moho 'yam aham mameti [SB 5.5.8]. By foolishness, being spelled by maya, he's think that "I have got my home, very nice home, grha. I have got my property," grha-ksetra, ato grha-ksetra-suta, "I have got very nice children, sons and daughters"; ato grha-ksetra-suta-apta, "I have got my relatives, my friends, so nice, and vitta, so much bank balance, so much money. Then I am the most happy man." But this is moha. Janasya moho 'yam. This is illusion. This illusion, why? He is forgetting the real business of his life, entrapped by this so-called happiness, grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittaiḥ [SB 5.5.8]. Therefore last, in the last verse, last night, it was discussed,    (More...)