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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This happiness, this material happiness, is temporary. Even if you are educated very nicely, become a big lawyer or high-court judge or anything big post, they are all temporary. Because as soon as the body is finished, everything is finished. Then again you have to take birth. There is no guarantee what kind of birth. Suppose you get birth again in human society. Then you have to take again education, again endeavor, if you want to become some big post.
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[[Vanisource:731113 - Lecture SB 01.02.07 - Delhi|731113 - Lecture SB 01.02.07 - Delhi]]
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Four classes of men. Those who are distressed, ārta, suffering . . . everyone is suffering, but those who are acute with suffering. Ārtaḥ arthārthī: those who are in need of some money. Artha, jijñāsuḥ: and inquisitive what is God. And jñānī, means actually those who are in knowledge; they are searching after. Four classes of men begins bhajana. Not the others. Opposite numbers are na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]). Those who are duskṛtina, background is simple sinful activities, they cannot take.

So here in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Sūta Gosvāmī is explaining in the meeting of Naimiṣāraṇya. He says, vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ. If you begin your bhakti-yoga, vāsudeve bhagavati . . . bhakti-yoga can be applied only to vāsudeve bhagavati. Bhakti-yoga is not applied anywhere. The śāstra does not say. Bhakti means to serve; and yoga, the process. That is described in the Bhagavad-gītā also. Bhagavad-gītā is bhakti-yoga. Mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.1 (1972)|BG 7.1]]). Mad-āśrayaḥ. After taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa or representative of Kṛṣṇa . . . Kṛṣṇa or representative of Kṛṣṇa you have to take shelter. Mad-āśrayaḥ. Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura said, āśraya lañā bhaje, kṛṣṇa tāre na hi tyaje. Anyone who takes āśraya and begins his bhajana, kṛṣṇa tāre na hi tyaje, Kṛṣṇa cannot give him up. Kṛṣṇa will accept him. And in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet (MU 1.2.12).

In the Bhāgavata also it is said, tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam ([[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21]]). Those who are inquisitive, brahma-jijñāsā, jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam. Śreya means the ultimate benefit, goal of life. People are very much attached to the immediate benefit. Just like children. Children, if you give him two paisa–worth lozenges, he is very much attached. But if you want to engage him in education, he is not very much attached. So there are two things: śreya and preya. Preya means immediate enjoyment, and śreya means future benefit. So śreya uttamam. Everyone is doing something. Just like a child is being educated for future happiness. But this happiness, this material happiness, is temporary. Even if you are educated very nicely, become a big lawyer or high-court judge or anything big post, they are all temporary. Because as soon as the body is finished, everything is finished. Then again you have to take birth. There is no guarantee what kind of birth. Suppose you get birth again in human society. Then you have to take again education, again endeavor, if you want to become some big post.

Therefore everything here is temporary, anitya. Anitya. Anitya means they are not permanent. But here it is said, śreya uttamam. Uttamam means udgata tamaṁ yasmād. This material world is called tamaḥ. Therefore Vedic advice is, tamasi mā jyotir gama: "Don't remain in this darkness. Try to go to the light." Jyotir gama. So uttama means . . . this word we have . . . uttama. The uttama means transcendental, beyond this material world. So there is śreya, ultimate benefit of life, beyond this material world. So one who is interested the śreya, or ultimate benefit of life beyond this material world, for him there is need of accepting a guru. Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam ([[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21]]). Uttamam, not for this ma . . . generally, people go to accept a guru for some material benefit, for cheap āśīrvāda, so that he can become more opulent in this material world. But that is not śreya. These things will be finished. These things will be finished with your body, and body is sure to be finished.

Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham ([[Vanisource:BG 10.34 (1972)|BG 10.34]]). Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that, "I am the death, and I take away everything at the death, at the time of your . . ." Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham. You make all asset. You make good bank balance, skyscraper building, good family, everything, but everything will be taken away at the time of death. Then another chapter. Then you do not know what chapter begins. That will depend on your karma. The same thing, contamination. As you have made your mental condition, sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 8.6 (1972)|BG 8.6]]), you will get; nature will give a similar body. This is going on.
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