Try to understand. I have got a different type of field, and I have to work on it and reap the result out of it and suffer pains and pleasure. That is already settled up. As soon as I have got a particular type of body, my pains and pleasures are already settled up. Already settled. You cannot make any improvement or degradation.
Therefore śāstra says that . . . Vedic literature says that:
- sukham aindriyakaṁ daityā
- deha-yogena dehinām
- sarvatra labhyate . . .
- yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ
- (SB 7.6.3)
These are very important instructions. Prahlāda Mahārāja says . . . he was instructing his class friends—he was a five-years-old boy—and he said: "My dear friends," that, "the material happiness . . ." Material happiness means sense gratification. This is material happiness. Everyone is materialistic, or materially advanced, means he has got better facility for satisfying the senses. That is material life. And spiritual life means that he does not satisfy his own senses, but he satisfies the senses of God. That is spiritual life.
Just try to understand. Senses, as I have already explained . . . God is also living entity. He is the chief living entity, chief intelligent man or god, whatever you say, and we are subordinate. Now, material life means . . . God . . . and what is our relationship? God is the supreme father, we are all children. So as in the family—the father is one, the children are many, say ten—if the children are very obedient to the father, then that family is very nice. Is very nice. If every children is obedient to the father, then father is happy and they are also happy. The father is also very open to satisfy the children. Father knows what is the needs of the children. He automatically supplies. And if the children become disobedient, the father is not satisfied. He may do as duty, to give them some food, but he is not satisfied. The same relationship with our relationship with God.