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Imported quote 18632 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.
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