Jahnu
2021-06-14 04:04:03 UTC
The body and mind alone are blocking us from complete happiness. All
living entities are souls. The soul is by definition - sat-chit ananda
- eternal, and full of knowledge and bliss.
The body, which is the vehicle of the soul in the material world is
the exact opposite - temporary and full of ignorance and misery.
By realizing ourselves as souls, who are parts and parcels of God, we
shall taste complete happiness. As long as we identify ourselves with
the body and its culture we shall remain miserable.
Of course, the body will give us sense-gratification, which by most
people are confused with happiness, but the happiness we get from
bodily and mental gratification will always and without exception end
in misery. So nobody can get complete happiness from the body and
mind.
The Vedic version teaches us that God is made of eternity, knowledge,
and bliss.
Brahma, god of creation, says:
Krishna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an
eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no
other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes. -Brahma-samhita,
5.1
It also makes perfect sense that eternity, knowledge and bliss is the
substance of God. We can test it on ourselves. As souls, ie. atomic
fragments of God, we consist of the same spiritual substance as God,
and this fact should be somehow measurable. It's like, by examining
one drop of the ocean one gets an understanding of the entire ocean.
The very fact that all living entities instinctively gravitate towards
these three factors, indicates that this is our natural state. All
living entities seek eternity, knowledge, and bliss. We all have the
distinct experience that these three are the prime moving factors of
our core existence.
We are all pleasure seeking. We all try to learn something. And we all
try to preserve our being. Some people say - I don't seek eternity. It
must become boring in eternity. But we all seek eternity in the sense
that we try to preserve our being. The survival instinct together with
the mating instinct are the strongest instincts in all living
entities.
Besides, boredom is a factor of material existence, As souls on the
spiritual plane we will never get bored playing with Krishna. Who
would not want to be eternally young and blissful? Does anyone want
his or her happiness to end, because it's just so boring being happy?
The only reason one would want his existence to end is if it's
miserable.
In reality we are happy all the time. Only in our delusion of bodily
existence is happiness constantly interrupted by suffering. Who wants
bliss to end? Who sits in a real happy frame of mind, and thinks -
gee, I wish this happiness would end... nobody does that. Thus it is a
direct observable fact that all living entities gravitate towards
eternity, knowledge and bliss, exactly as predicted in the Vedic
version.
By connecting with our real identities as souls we become re-situated
in God's substance of eternity, knowledge and bliss. By connecting
with our real selves we connect with eternity, knowledge and bliss.
The method to do so is to invoke the name of God and petition Him.
This is done in this age by chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra.
hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
"This mantra, consisting of 16 words and 32 syllables, is the only
means against evil in this age. After searching through all the Vedic
literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sublime for this
age than the chanting of Hare Krsna."
--- Kali-santarana Upanishad
living entities are souls. The soul is by definition - sat-chit ananda
- eternal, and full of knowledge and bliss.
The body, which is the vehicle of the soul in the material world is
the exact opposite - temporary and full of ignorance and misery.
By realizing ourselves as souls, who are parts and parcels of God, we
shall taste complete happiness. As long as we identify ourselves with
the body and its culture we shall remain miserable.
Of course, the body will give us sense-gratification, which by most
people are confused with happiness, but the happiness we get from
bodily and mental gratification will always and without exception end
in misery. So nobody can get complete happiness from the body and
mind.
The Vedic version teaches us that God is made of eternity, knowledge,
and bliss.
Brahma, god of creation, says:
Krishna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an
eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no
other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes. -Brahma-samhita,
5.1
It also makes perfect sense that eternity, knowledge and bliss is the
substance of God. We can test it on ourselves. As souls, ie. atomic
fragments of God, we consist of the same spiritual substance as God,
and this fact should be somehow measurable. It's like, by examining
one drop of the ocean one gets an understanding of the entire ocean.
The very fact that all living entities instinctively gravitate towards
these three factors, indicates that this is our natural state. All
living entities seek eternity, knowledge, and bliss. We all have the
distinct experience that these three are the prime moving factors of
our core existence.
We are all pleasure seeking. We all try to learn something. And we all
try to preserve our being. Some people say - I don't seek eternity. It
must become boring in eternity. But we all seek eternity in the sense
that we try to preserve our being. The survival instinct together with
the mating instinct are the strongest instincts in all living
entities.
Besides, boredom is a factor of material existence, As souls on the
spiritual plane we will never get bored playing with Krishna. Who
would not want to be eternally young and blissful? Does anyone want
his or her happiness to end, because it's just so boring being happy?
The only reason one would want his existence to end is if it's
miserable.
In reality we are happy all the time. Only in our delusion of bodily
existence is happiness constantly interrupted by suffering. Who wants
bliss to end? Who sits in a real happy frame of mind, and thinks -
gee, I wish this happiness would end... nobody does that. Thus it is a
direct observable fact that all living entities gravitate towards
eternity, knowledge and bliss, exactly as predicted in the Vedic
version.
By connecting with our real identities as souls we become re-situated
in God's substance of eternity, knowledge and bliss. By connecting
with our real selves we connect with eternity, knowledge and bliss.
The method to do so is to invoke the name of God and petition Him.
This is done in this age by chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra.
hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
"This mantra, consisting of 16 words and 32 syllables, is the only
means against evil in this age. After searching through all the Vedic
literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sublime for this
age than the chanting of Hare Krsna."
--- Kali-santarana Upanishad