{"id":98159,"date":"2022-06-05T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=98159"},"modified":"2022-06-05T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T08:06:10","slug":"the-living-entities-in-the-material-world-can-never-have-any-happiness-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=98159","title":{"rendered":"The living entities in the material world can never have any happiness (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/suddiario.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kali-yuga_1600x900-1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Svavasa Prabhu - SB 3-5-40 - 6-3-22\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DuV2gxdxi7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nTranslation<br \/>\nO Father, O Lord, O Personality of Godhead, the living entities in the material world can never have any happiness because they are overwhelmed by the three kinds of miseries. Therefore they take shelter of the shade of Your lotus feet, which are full of knowledge, and we also thus take shelter of them.<\/p>\n<p>Purport<br \/>\nThe way of devotional service is neither sentimental nor mundane. It is the path of reality by which the living entity can attain the transcendental happiness of being freed from the three kinds of material miseries \u2014 miseries arising from the body and mind, from other living entities and from natural disturbances. Everyone who is conditioned by material existence \u2014 whether he be a man or beast or demigod or bird \u2014 must suffer from \u0101dhy\u0101tmika (bodily or mental) pains, \u0101dhibhautika pains (those offered by living creatures), and \u0101dhidaivika pains (those due to supernatural disturbances). His happiness is nothing but a hard struggle to get free from the miseries of conditional life. But there is only one way he can be rescued, and that is by accepting the shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.<\/p>\n<p>The argument that unless one has proper knowledge one cannot be freed from material miseries is undoubtedly true. But because the lotus feet of the Lord are full of transcendental knowledge, acceptance of His lotus feet completes that necessity. We have already discussed this point in the First Canto (1.2.7):<\/p>\n<p>v\u0101sudeve bhagavati<br \/>\nbhakti-yoga\u1e25 prayojita\u1e25<br \/>\njanayaty \u0101\u015bu vair\u0101gya\u1e41<br \/>\nj\u00f1\u0101na\u1e41 ca yad ahaitukam<br \/>\nThere is no want of knowledge in the devotional service of V\u0101sudeva, the Personality of Godhead. He, the Lord, personally takes charge of dissipating the darkness of ignorance from the heart of a devotee. He confirms this in Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 (10.10):<\/p>\n<p>te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41 satata-yukt\u0101n\u0101\u1e41<br \/>\nbhajat\u0101\u1e41 pr\u012bti-p\u016brvakam<br \/>\ndad\u0101mi buddhi-yoga\u1e41 ta\u1e41<br \/>\nyena m\u0101m upay\u0101nti te<br \/>\nEmpiric philosophical speculation cannot give one relief from the threefold miseries of material existence. Simply to endeavor for knowledge without devoting oneself to the Lord is a waste of valuable time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/suddiario.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kali-yuga_1600x900-1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/>Translation O Father, O Lord, O Personality of Godhead, the living entities in the material world can never have any happiness because they are overwhelmed by the three kinds of miseries. Therefore they take shelter of the shade of Your lotus feet, which are full of knowledge, and we also thus take shelter of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98160,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159\/revisions\/98160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}