always hankering and lamenting

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So we have to purify the consciousness. Then we shall be without any touch of this so-called distress and happiness. That is prescribed here: yat tat sattva-gunam svaccham. Here there is little happiness in the sattva-guna. But still, that sattva-guna can be contaminated by rajo-guna and tamo-guna. Rajo-guna, tamo-guna-directly distress. And sattva-guna, there is little taste of happiness, but that is not complete happiness. The complete happiness is that sattva-guna without any touch of rajo-guna and tamo-guna. That is transcendental. (More...)

So generally, whatever we may possess, but the hankering is there. That is rajo-guna. That is rajo-guna: always hankering, even up to the stage of so-called perfection. Just like the karmis. Karmis, they think that perfection of life is very, very high standard of life, very happy, comfortable. Just like in the Western countries, they think that to have nice roads, nice motorcar and very high skyscraper building, and facilities, modern comforts... What is called? So that is the standard of happiness. So... And we Eastern people, we are also imitating them. But actually, ask them, who possesses all them, that "Whether you have attained the position of no hankering?" No, that is not. The hankering is there. What to think of possessing these material facilities, even one goes to the heavenly planet, that is also included within the happiness of the karmis. They want happiness in this world as well as after this world. After death also, they want to go to the heavenly planet, Svargaloka, where the duration of life is many, many thousands of years, and the standard of happiness is very, very high. There the place is very beautiful, the women are very beautiful, the gardens there are... These descriptions are there. Nandana-kanana and apsaras there are. So this is also another higher standard of life, duration of life. That is the position of the karmis. (More...)

And the jnanis, they are hankering after to become one with the Supreme. They have experienced that even the standard of material happiness available in the heavenly planets, that also did not give them complete satisfaction. So they aspire to become one with the Supreme, that "That will give me happiness. I become one with..." Monist. Aham brahmasmi: "I am one with Brahman." So that is also hankering. Mukti. Mukti means liberation from this material unhappiness and come to the spiritual happiness, "I am Brahman. I am the same Supreme," thinking, concoction, like that. So there is also hankering. And siddhi, yogis, they want many perfection: anima, laghima, mahima, prapti-siddhi, prakamya, isita, vasita. There are eight kinds of yogic siddhi. You can become smaller than the smallest, you can become bigger than the biggest, you can become lighter than the lightest, you can get anything you like, immediately. These are some of the yoga-siddhis. But this is also hankering. This is also hankering, not santa. Either karmi... What to speak of ordinary being? They are simply hankering. Even the so-called perfect karmis, jnanis, yogis, they are also not santa. They are hankering. (More...)

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