Category:Attaining Happiness
Theme Analysis
The search for pleasure is the basic driving force of every living entity because the spirit soul is by nature full of bliss ānandamayo bhyasāt. However, in the conditioned state of life, foolish people mistakenly try to satisfy this inner craving by arranging material plans, accumulating wealth, or indulging the senses. Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that these material activities can never diminish our distress or bring genuine satisfaction; instead, they lock the soul into a hard struggle for existence against repeated birth and death. Real, unlimited happiness can only be attained when a person purifies his mind and senses by surrendering to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. By executing devotional service under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, the living entity is freed from the three kinds of material miseries and awakens to his eternal, joyful nature.
- The Illusion of Material Planning: Men and women work jointly to create material arrangements for pleasure and to reduce their suffering. Because these activities are based entirely on selfish desires and ignore the laws of God, they fail to decrease misery and never become a source of true peace.
- The Essential Necessity of Purification: The happiness of the material world is always limited, temporary, and baffling because it is connected to a diseased conditioning. To experience the unlimited bliss of the spirit, one must purify his existence by undertaking spiritual penances and austerities.
- The Protection of Scriptural Injunctions: One who lives according to his own whimsical ideas and ignores the directions of the śāstras can never achieve success or happiness. True happiness, both in this life and the next, belongs only to those who align their governance and daily actions with the codes of religion.
- The Ultimate Success of Devotional Surrender: After many failures in the material world, the intelligent person fully surrenders his possessions and life to the Lord. This pure devotional service completely washes away material attachment and replaces it with perpetual happiness and love of God.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Attaining Happiness Through Devotional Service and Spiritual Realization.
Pages in category "Attaining Happiness"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- After repeated attempts and failures, he fully surrenders to the lotus feet of the Lord. The Lord then gives him directions, and, attaining happiness, he forgets all material engagement
- As husband & wife, a man & woman plan together to attain happiness & decrease unhappiness, working jointly in many ways, but because their activities are full of desires, these activities are never a source of happiness, and they never diminish distress
- As husband and wife plan together to attain happiness and decrease unhappiness, working jointly in many ways, but because their activities are full of desires, these activities are never a source of happiness, and they never diminish distress
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- If one engages his possessions in the service of the Lord under the guidance of a proper spiritual master. he will attain happiness both in this life and the next
- In Bhagavad-gita it is stated that anyone who lives on concocted ideas, without reference to the sastras, never becomes successful and does not attain happiness or liberation after death
- In the kingdom of God, no one has to endeavor to attain a standard of happiness. Happiness is the nature of the spirit, as stated in the Vedanta-sutras: anandamayo 'bhyasat - the spirit is by nature full of happiness
- In the present conditioned state of life, he (a living being) is engaged in a struggle against recurring birth and death. Therefore he has attained neither happiness nor immortality
- In the Vedas it is said that one who observes the caturmasya vow will attain eternal happiness in the heavenly kingdom
- Instead of being very anxious to stimulate our senses to increase material happiness, we should try to attain spiritual happiness by practicing Krsna consciousness
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- The instructions given herein (in SB 4.14.15) serve as a summary of how the head of government should execute his ruling power and thus attain happiness not only in this life but also in the life after death
- The living entity can attain the transcendental happiness of being freed from the three kinds of material miseries - miseries arising from the body and mind, from other living entities and from natural disturbances
- The sage Rsabhadeva told his sons that once they purified their existence they would have unlimited happiness. We are all intended to attain peace and happiness, but whatever peace and happiness we find in this material world is limited
- The way of devotional service is neither sentimental nor mundane. It is the path of reality by which the living entity can attain the transcendental happiness of being freed from the three kinds of material miseries
- They should go on rendering service to Lord Sri Krsna and enjoy life perpetually. In this way all miseries will be diminished, the devotees will attain great happiness, and there will be jubilant love of God
- This real and transcendental happiness is attained only after liberation from the bondage of material existence. Any action which does not aim at such transcendental happiness is always temporary and baffling