The bliss of the Six Gosvamis

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

That is pleasure, serving God. Just like Rupa Gosvami, just see, in the
cottage. They are minister. They are ministers. Tyaktva turnam
asesa-mandala-pati-srenim. They are living most aristocratically, and now
they are taking the place of mendicants living in the cottage, no bodily
comfort, no servants, nothing of the sort. Does it mean they are suffering?
There is one... That is stated in the, that vande rupa-sanatana, that they,
tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat. They gave up as
most insignificant this society, this aristocracy. Tyaktva turnam
asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat. It is... What is the value of
this? Give up. And bhutva dina-ganesakau karunaya kaupina-kanthasritau. And
in order to become merciful to the mass of people, they accept simply
loincloth, any way covering, that's all. That is a suffering? No. They are
not suffering. Then people may say that that is suffering.
But for them, there is a... Gopi-bhava-rasamrtabdi-lahari-kallola-magnau
muhur. Then he merged into the ocean, in the thought that how gopis,
gopi-bhava, they are transacting their business with Krsna.
Gopi-bhava-rasamrta. That is a ocean of transcendental bliss. So because
they're merged into that ocean, what is this suffering? They have no sense
of suffering. One man is suffering because he has identified with this body,
he is suffering. But they were identified with the cause of the gopis. They
are simply writing Krsna's pastimes with gopis, Vidagdha-madhava,
Lalita-madhava, Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu. They are simply engaged in thoughts
of Krsna and the gopis and writing, writing, writing. So what is the
suffering? Other fools may think, "Oh this man was minister. He was so
comfortably situated. Now they have taken this cloth and they've no home, no
food, nothing of this..." They are thinking that is suffering, but they are
not suffering. They are not suffering. They are enjoying.


Srila Prabhupada/ Conversation regarding philosopher Kierkegaard.