Suppose you are living in an apartment and the landlord asks you to vacate. You are sorry. But youll not be sorry if you go to a better apartment. So this is our nature: Wherever we live, because we are permanent, we want a permanent residence. That is our inclination. We dont wish to die. Why? Because we are permanent. We dont want to be diseased. These are all artificial, external thingsdisease, death, birth, miseries. They are external things.   (More...)

The difficulty is that, as a living entity, I want enjoyment. Because I am not only simply existing. I have got bliss. I am composed of three spiritual qualities: sac-cid-ananda. I am eternal, and I am full of knowledge, and I am full of bliss. Those who enter into the impersonal effulgence of the Supreme Lord can remain eternally with full knowledge that they are now merged with Brahman, or the brahmajyoti. But they cannot have eternal bliss, because that part is wanting.   (More...)

So better that we know the nature of our constitutional position. Our constitutional position is that we want eternity, we want complete knowledge, and we want pleasure also. If we are kept alone, we cannot have pleasure. Well feel uncomfortable, and for want of pleasure well accept any kind of material pleasure. That is the risk. But in Krsna consciousness, well have full pleasure. The highest pleasure of this material world is sex life, and that is also pervertedso diseased. So even in the spiritual world there is sex pleasure in Krsna. But we should not think that this is something like sex life in the material world. No. But, janmady asya yatah: [SB 1.1.1] unless that sex life is there, it cannot be reflected here. It is simply a perverted reflection. The actual life is there, in Krsna. Krsna is full of pleasure.   (More...)