From Material Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
From Material Miseries to Spiritual BlissFrom Material Miseries
to Spiritual Bliss
karma-jam buddhi-yukta hi phalam tyaktva manisinah
janma-bandha-vinirmuktah padam gacchanty anamayamTranslation by
SPrabhupadaThe wise, engaged in devotional service, take refuge in
the Lord, and free themselves from the cycle of birth and death by
renouncing the fruits of action in the material world. In this way
they can attain that state beyond all miseries.BG 2.51From Material
Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
What are Miseries?Misery is Mental or emotional unhappiness or
distress, a cause or source of suffering.From Material Miseries to
Spiritual Bliss
This world is Mrtyu loka (a place of miseries). The miseries of
life are present everywhere within the material world. Janma- birth
(misery in the womb),Mrtyu - death, Jara- old age and Vyadhi -
diseases, From Material Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
There are three kinds of miseries due to our material
conditional life: AdhyatmicAdhibhautic Adhidaivic, From Material
Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
AdhyatmicAdhyatmic are suffering pertaining to the
body eg, fever, pain, headache etc. Mind, when one has suffered
a great loss the mind is not in good condition. This is also
suffering. From Material Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
Adhibhautic Adhibhautic, are sufferings caused by other living
entities. e.g Just like we are human being, we are sending millions
of poor animals to the slaughterhouse daily. Similarly we have to
suffer from suffering caused by other living entities. We can hide
from material laws, state laws but we cannot hide from God's
lawFrom Material Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
AdhidaivicAdhidaivic refers to Suffering caused by nature, such
as famine, earthquake, draught, flood, climatic changes,
pestilence, so many things. Even ghost-haunted, ghost cannot be
seen, but suffering of delirium is there.From Material Miseries to
Spiritual Bliss
What is the aim of Life in the miserable world?to end the
miseries of life and not to increase them.The Vedas prescribe two
different types of occupation for the human being: pravtti and
nivtti-mrga.From Material Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
1) pravtti-mrga, or the path of sense enjoyment, inferior path
2) nivtti-mrga, or the path of renunciation, the path of sacrifice
for the supreme cause and which is superior. Actual life is
spiritual existence, or brahma-bhta existence, where life is
eternal, blissful and full of knowledgeFrom Material Miseries to
Spiritual Bliss
What to do with the miseries? 1. One must learn to tolerate them
without being disturbed.Lord Krishna said that miseries are
nonpermanent and one must learn to tolerate them as mentioned in BG
2.13:matra-sparsas tu kaunteya sitosna-sukha-duhkha-dah agamapayino
'nityas tams titiksasva bharataEnglish Translation by Srila
PrabhupadaO son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness
and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the
appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They
arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and. From Material
Miseries to Spiritual Bliss
2. Surrender unto Krishna .So the best thing is, to listen to
Krishna. In BG Ch 18 V 66 Krishna says sarva-dharman parityajya mam
ekam saranam vrajaaham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma
sucah
English Translation by S PrabhupadaAbandon all varieties of
religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all
sinful reaction. Do not fear.What to do with the miseries?
