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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Happiness—his prerogative. He cannot . . . why shall he be put into misery? That is not his position. He should be always in happiness. So their happiness they do not know here. In the material conception of life we do not know what is happiness. So those who are yogī, those who are transcendentalists, advanced in spiritual life, they know what is happiness. So ramante yoginaḥ anante (CC Madhya 9.29).
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[[Vanisource:660829 - Lecture BG 05.14-22 - New York|660829 - Lecture BG 05.14-22 - New York]]
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Ramante yoginaḥ. Yoginaḥ means those who are advancing in spiritual science and advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are called yogī. So ramante yoginaḥ. The yoginaḥ, they take pleasure, satyānande. Satyānande means "in actual happiness." Because the living entity, he is, I mean, sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs 5.1).

Happiness—his prerogative. He cannot . . . why shall he be put into misery? That is not his position. He should be always in happiness. So their happiness they do not know here. In the material conception of life we do not know what is happiness. So those who are yogī, those who are transcendentalists, advanced in spiritual life, they know what is happiness. So ramante yoginaḥ anante (CC Madhya 9.29)

Anante . . . happiness mean which has no end. That is happiness. According to Vedic literature, happiness has no end. Unlimited happiness. Here in the material world, whatever we consider happiness, that is limited. That has its end. But spiritual happiness is calculated . . . just like spirit is unlimited, similarly, spiritual happiness is also unlimited.

So ramante yoginaḥ anante satyānande. Satyānanda means real happiness. Satyānande. And what is that satyānande? Cid-ātmani. Cit. Cit means knowledge. And ātmā. When the ātmā is developed in full knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that sort of happiness is real happiness. Now, bāhya-sparśeṣu asakta, asaktātmā vindaty ātmani.

Ātmani means with the soul, with the Supersoul, the relation between the soul and the Supersoul. That is called ātmā. That is called rāsa dance. You have heard about Kṛṣṇa's rāsa dance. That is happiness. In the field of spiritual platform that happiness is realized.

So, sa brahma-yoga-yuktātmā sukham akṣayam aśnute. Akṣayam means that does not pass away; not flickering. Not flickering. Here in the material world all happiness, the so-called happiness, they are all flickering. They come and go. Therefore one who is transcendentally situated, he does not care for happiness or distress, because he knows, "Either this happiness or this distress, it has appeared and it will go.
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