Blissful Life - an essential subject

An undeniable fact is that everyone in this world is looking for a blissful life of happiness. Some look for bliss in money, some in family and friends, and others in careers etc. However, people do not realize this; when the material world itself is temporary, how can its by-products (such as wealth, relations etc) be permanent and thereby give happiness? Therefore, one must look above and beyond this temporary world, and into the spiritual realm to be able to understand what true blissful life is. If one can do that, and become fully engaged in Krishna consciousness activities, then he will (by the grace of the Lord), be able to lead a blissful life.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Blissful Life category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 8 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books


vanipedia.org 		The living entity, if he submits to this hearing process, will lose his long-cherished desire to dominate material nature, and gradually and proportionately, as he reduces his long desire to dominate, he comes to enjoy spiritual happiness. In a Vedic mantra it is said that as he becomes learned in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he proportionately relishes his eternal blissful life. (Bhagavad-gītā 13.22)



vanipedia.org 		Everyone else is trying to satisfy himself, whereas the devotee tries only to satisfy the Lord. The devotional process is completely different from the others; by working to please the Lord by engaging his senses in the Lord's loving service, the devotee is immediately situated on the transcendental platform, and he enjoys unlimited blissful life. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.14)



vanipedia.org 		It is already explained that in the cosmos of three-fourths energy of the Lord there is neither death nor fear, and one is full of the blissful life of happiness and knowledge. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.20)



vanipedia.org 		In this life one may think that he is very happy being an American, Indian, Englishman or German, but in the next life one has to accept another body among 8,400,000 species. The next body has to be immediately accepted according to karma. One will be forced to accept a certain type of body, and protesting will not help. That is the stringent law of nature. Due to the living entity's ignorance of his eternal blissful life, he becomes attracted to material activities under the spell of māyā. In this world, he can never experience happiness, yet he works very hard to do so. This is called māyā. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.13.1)



vanipedia.org 		Every human being should try to understand how the spirit soul can be happy and where he can attain an eternal, blissful life of knowledge. Human beings are meant to study these subject matters, not to be absorbed in caring for the temporary body, which is sure to change. No one knows whether he will receive a human body again; there is no guarantee, for according to one's work one may get any body, from that of a demigod to that of a dog. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.2.58)



vanipedia.org 		When our senses are purified, they are freed from all material stages, namely anna-maya, prāṇa-maya, mano-maya and vijñāna-maya, and they become situated in the highest stage—ānanda-maya, or blissful life in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The Māyāvādī philosophers consider ānanda-maya to be the state of being merged in the Supreme. To them, ānanda-maya means that the Supersoul and the individual soul become one. But the real fact is that oneness does not mean merging into the Supreme and losing one's own individual existence. Merging into the spiritual existence is the living entity's realization of qualitative oneness with the Supreme. (Kṛṣṇa Book, Chapter 87)



vanipedia.org 		One must practice austerity so that his existential position will be purified and he will achieve unlimited blissful life. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.19.24)



vanipedia.org 		Pravṛtti activities involve raising oneself from a lower to a higher condition of materialistic life, whereas nivṛtti means the cessation of material desire. Through pravṛtti activities one suffers from material entanglement, but by nivṛtti activities one is purified and becomes fit to enjoy eternal, blissful life. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.15.47)


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