Happiness And Distress Are Like A Dream

[Paramhamsa Vani]

Sree Sree Guru Gaurangau Jayatah!

When jivas become averse to Sree Krishna, His illusory energy envelops them and they are drowned in the ocean of births and deaths and three-fold afflictions. We wrongly think ourselves to be bodies and other bodies related to us as ours. Actually, we are of Sree Krishna and Sree Krishna is ours. False ego and false interest caused by Lord’s illusory energy hurled us down in this world of nescience to this prison house to get our punishment for forgetting our eternal relation with Sree Krishna. There is no actual existence of suffering. This is like a dream. When we forget our relation with Sree Krishna, we become victim of the dream of suffering. A realized soul has got constant remembrance of Sree Krishna. So, he is beyond this dream. The continuous flow of the stream of relative duties will never come to an end. We will be frustrated if we want to worship Sree Krishna after completion of all relative duties.

--– Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj