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Nature is always troubling you, either by excessive heat or either by excessive cold or by some by natural disturbance - some earthquake, some famine, some pestilence; then there are bodily disturbances, disease, mental disturbances

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Nature is always troubling you, either by excessive heat or either by excessive cold or by some by natural disturbance—some earthquake, some famine, some pestilence; then there are bodily disturbances, disease, mental disturbances. So many people are suffering from mental diseases, especially in this country.

You are eternal, you have to search out the ways by which you can be eternally situated in comfortable life. That is your problem. Not that for the time-being you are feeling artificially. It is not at all comfortable, because in the material world nobody can be comfortable. It is impossible. The threefold miseries are always troubling us, but because we are fools we are thinking that we are comfortable. We are not comfortable at all. The adhyātmic, the miseries inflicted by natural influence—excessive heat, excessive cold, śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ (BG 2.14)—these are practical.

What you will do? You make a very nice apartment, but as soon as there is excessive cold, you feel uncomfortable or you have to arrange for heating or do something. So nature is always troubling you, either by excessive heat or either by excessive cold or by some by natural disturbance—some earthquake, some famine, some pestilence; then there are bodily disturbances, disease, mental disturbances. So many people are suffering from mental diseases, especially in this country. (laughter) Yes. Psychiatrists and psychologists—they are taking advantage.

So the mental disturbances, bodily disturbances, nature's disturbances, your neighbors' disturbances—if not . . . they'll pick up some quarrel with you. The animals, the other animals, living entities—the ants, the birds, the tigers, the dogs, so many—we are always with disturbances. That we cannot understand; we are thinking falsely. This is called māyā. Actually we are not in . . . we are not in peace, but māyā is dictating, "Oh, you are very comfortable," and he's accepting, " Oh, I'm very comfortable." Yes. This is your problem. So if you want to solve your problem for good, then these are the formulas we have described.