Material World Is Devoid Of Actual Bliss
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Paramhamsa Vani
Sep 29, 2025, 5:24:28 AMSep 29
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Sree Sree Guru Gaurangau Jayatah!
As long as we shall remain in this world, we should be satisfied with minimum material possessions. Atma requires atma for its sustenance, not anatma. Anatma is foreign to it. If one gets the property of one world, he will have the desire to get another. The material world is actually devoid of actual bliss. The material world is the shadow of the Supreme Lord, Who is All-Existence All-Knowledge and All-Bliss. The material world is the outcome of Maya which means - 'not that'. The shadow of a tree has got no actual existence.
tasmad idam jagad asesam asat-svarupam
svapnabham asta-dhisanam puru-duhha-duhkham
tvayy eva nitya-sukha-bodha-tanav anante
mayata udyad api yat sad ivavabhati
(Srimad Bhagavatam 10.14.22)
This entire universe is non-eternal, so it is dream-like (illusory), transitory (not permanent), devoid of knowledge, inert and extremely painful. But O Lord Krishna! You are All-Existence, All-Knowledge and All-Bliss and therefore Infinite. The entire universe has been created and destroyed by Your inconceivable power, yet it appears to be truth actually existing.
The Supreme Lord is Supreme in all aspects. He is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent and He is All-Bliss. By the grace of Absolute Bliss we can get complete bliss. Grace descends to a surrendered soul. All desires of the votary will be fulfilled if he takes unconditional total submission to the Supreme Lord.
--- Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
As long as we shall remain in this world, we should be satisfied with minimum material possessions. Atma requires atma for its sustenance, not anatma. Anatma is foreign to it. If one gets the property of one world, he will have the desire to get another. The material world is actually devoid of actual bliss. The material world is the shadow of the Supreme Lord, Who is All-Existence All-Knowledge and All-Bliss. The material world is the outcome of Maya which means - 'not that'. The shadow of a tree has got no actual existence.
tasmad idam jagad asesam asat-svarupam
svapnabham asta-dhisanam puru-duhha-duhkham
tvayy eva nitya-sukha-bodha-tanav anante
mayata udyad api yat sad ivavabhati
(Srimad Bhagavatam 10.14.22)
This entire universe is non-eternal, so it is dream-like (illusory), transitory (not permanent), devoid of knowledge, inert and extremely painful. But O Lord Krishna! You are All-Existence, All-Knowledge and All-Bliss and therefore Infinite. The entire universe has been created and destroyed by Your inconceivable power, yet it appears to be truth actually existing.
The Supreme Lord is Supreme in all aspects. He is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent and He is All-Bliss. By the grace of Absolute Bliss we can get complete bliss. Grace descends to a surrendered soul. All desires of the votary will be fulfilled if he takes unconditional total submission to the Supreme Lord.
--- Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
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