Category:Achieving Happiness
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently illuminates the distinction between the flickering, illusory pleasure of the material world and the eternal, substantial bliss of spiritual existence. The central premise of his teachings on this subject is that the living entity, being spirit soul, can never find satisfaction in the temporary gratification of the body and mind. True happiness is not an adjustment of material circumstances but a revival of the soul's eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. This analysis explores the futility of material endeavor, the necessity of divine guidance, and the practical application of devotional service as the only means to achieve the highest perfection of life.
- The Futility of Material Endeavor: Material happiness is described as temporary and inextricably linked with distress. The living entity struggles hard to adjust external energy for bodily comfort, yet the happiness and distress of the body are predestined by the laws of nature and cannot be altered by material plans.
- The Definition of Real Happiness: Genuine happiness is defined as spiritual, eternal, and free from the cycle of birth and death. It arises from the satisfaction of the soul (atma) rather than the senses, and it is achieved only when one transcends the material modes and enters the spiritual atmosphere.
- The Necessity of a Spiritual Master: A recurring instruction is the absolute necessity of approaching a bona fide spiritual master. One cannot achieve real happiness independently; one must seek shelter, initiation, and guidance from a representative of Kṛṣṇa to understand the science of happiness.
- Surrender and Austerity: The path to this ultimate goal involves tapasya (austerity) and complete surrender to Kṛṣṇa. By voluntarily accepting the discipline of devotional service and consulting the scriptures like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, one transcends the temporary duality of the material world.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Achieving Real Happiness through Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
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Pages in category "Achieving Happiness"
The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
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- A brahmana who desires to achieve happiness by gaining wealth through professional priesthood must certainly have a very low mind. How shall I accept such priesthood?
- Actually, one should undergo severe austerities and penances only to achieve spiritual happiness. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is recommended that tapasya, or austerity, should be accepted for realizing the Supreme Lord
- An intelligent man will never aspire to become a devotee to achieve material happiness. That is the test of a devotee
- Any one person who is seriously desirous of achieving real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation
- Any person who is seriously desirous of achieving real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation
- Any person who seriously desires to achieve real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation
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- Even though we may be able to avoid distress and artificially enjoy some material happiness by temporary achievements, this represents no factual gain in life. Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life
- Everyone is actually seeking to achieve happiness by reviving his relationship with the Supersoul. As the Lord (Krsna) says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: By all the Vedas, it is I who am to be known
- Everyone is trying to be happy, and the process adopted to achieve that happiness is called self-interest. Unfortunately, the conditioned soul hovering within this material world does not know that his ultimate goal of self-interest is Vasudeva
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- He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world
- Here the proposal is how to achieve perfect happiness of atma. Atma means the body, atma means the mind and atma means the soul. So unless you get happiness of the soul, simply trying to get happiness of the body and the mind, you'll never get happiness
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- If your misery comes by nature, your happiness will also come by nature. Don't bother about it. That is the instruction of Prahlada Maharaja. If you receive the miseries of life without effort, you will similarly achieve happiness without effort
- In the human form of life, the living entity must accept this instruction from the Supreme Person, Krsna: "Do not plan to achieve happiness and drive away distress. You will never be successful. Simply surrender unto Me" - BG 18.66
- In this material world, every materialist desires to achieve happiness and diminish his distress, and therefore he acts accordingly. Actually, however, one is happy as long as one does not endeavor for happiness
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- Krsna said that happiness can be achieved in pure consciousness, or when your senses are transcendental. He gave hint. Not only hint, He practically suggested also that: You simply surrender unto Me
- Krsna says that sukham atyantikam. Atyantikam means the superhappiness, that which you cannot excel more. That is the final point. That sort of happiness is not possible to achieve
- Krsna says that sukham atyantikam: the supermost happiness can be achieved not by these senses, but atindriya. Atindriya means transcendental senses
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- My dear King Pariksit, the sons of Kartaviryarjuna, who were defeated by the superior strength of Parasurama, never achieved happiness, for they always remembered the killing of their father
- My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our specific bodies and the happiness and distress we achieve
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- One should simply understand that the distress and happiness of this body are predestined; there is no need to try to avoid the distress of this bodily existence or to attempt to achieve happiness by different types of exercises
- Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life, and it is for that purpose only - for the ultimate gain - that we should undertake all sorts of penances and austerities
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- People are seeking peace in different ways, but they can achieve real happiness only if they consult Krsna, or the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam - which constitute the science of Krsna. BG 1972 purports
- People are seeking peace in different ways, but they can achieve real happiness only if they consult the bona fide representative of Krsna, the man in Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports
- People are trying to become happy by adjusting the external energy, but they do not know that happiness cannot be achieved without approaching God
- People are working hard day and night for the illusory happiness of the body. This is not a way to achieve happiness. One has to get out of this material entanglement and return home, back to Godhead. That is real happiness
- Persons who are trying to become happy by adjustment of this bahir-artha, external energy, or the material energy, they do not know that happiness cannot be achieved without approaching Visnu, or God
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- Real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world. So certain amount of happiness and certain amount of distress we have to enjoy and suffer. You cannot change it. This is the law of nature in this material world
- Real happiness is achieved by spiritual existence or by cessation of the repetition of birth and death. One can stop the repetition of birth and death only by going back to Godhead
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- Siva speaks to Sati, "He (a person who has develop pure krsna consciousness) can enjoy the happiness achieved by the pure devotees"
- Steady in the Self, being freed from all material contamination, the yogi achieves the highest perfectional stage of happiness in touch with the Supreme Consciousness. BG 6.28 - 1972
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- The actual form of life for the living entities is one of spiritual happiness, which is real happiness. This happiness can be achieved only when one stops all materialistic activities. Material sense enjoyment is simply imagination
- The highest kind of happiness that a man can achieve is to be promoted to the spiritual planets by practice of Krsna consciousness. A life of Krsna consciousness is therefore the solution to all the problems of material existence. BG 1972 purports
- The living entity tries to achieve happiness and rid himself of the causes of distress, but because the various bodies of the living entities are under the full control of material nature, all his plans in different bodies, one after another
- The Lord has already ordered both of you brothers (Rupa and Sanatana) to situate yourselves in Vrndavana. There you will achieve all happiness
- The perfect process for achieving this (freedom from all kinds of fear and the fullest extent of happiness in life), here and now, is recommended in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is uttered by such a great authority as Srila Sukadeva Gosvami
- There are many heavenly planets to which they (those materially attached) aspire just to achieve more and more material happiness by getting a long duration of life and the paraphernalia for sense enjoyment
- This (SB 7.15.50) is explained in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.21): When those who follow the pravrtti-marga have enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness
- This ultimate gain (of achieving permanent happiness and eternal life) is possible to achieve in the human form of life