summer and winter
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Imported quote 18626 The example is given, sitosna-sukha-duḥkha-daḥ. The winter season and the summer season, they come and go. To somebody, winter season is very nice, and to somebody, summer season is very nice. In the Western countries they like summer season very much, and in this tropical country they like winter season very much. So actually, summer and winter, they are neither distress nor happiness. It is due to the touch of the skin. Matra-sparsas tu. Matra-sparsaḥ means it is due to the touching of the skin we feel like that, distress and happiness. Actually this material world, as certified by Krsna, it is place of distress. There is no happiness. Duḥkhalayam asasvatam [Bg 8.15]. It has been described in the Bhagavad-gita, "This place is place for miserable condition." Duḥkha alayam. Alayam. So long you are not annihilated, this place is duḥkhalayam. It is miserable condition. We have several times explained.
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