bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kami sakali asanta

[jaimin]

Prabhupada: More than. Prakrsta-rupena mattah. Mattah means mad,
drunkard, and pramattah means more than mad. So generally people, they
have become mad after sense enjoyment. Everyone is busy for sense
enjoyment. This is material life. And when they are fed up, no more
available, so they become tyagi-frustration that "Grapes are sour."
The jackal jumped over to get the grapes, but when he could not obtain
it, then he rejects, "Ah, what is use of the grapes? It is sour." So
karmis, they are pramattah, mad after enjoying, and jnanis, being fed
up, they say, brahma satyam jagan mithya: "The world is useless." So
this is going on. The karmis, they want to enjoy this material world,
and the jnanis, they are little advanced. They are... They are fed up,
rather. They want to enjoy by becoming one with the Supreme. So there
is want. The karmis want to enjoy this world, and the jnanis want
also. That is demand, mukti. Mukti means to become one with the
Supreme Brahman. And the yogis, they want siddhi, asta-siddhi, anima,
laghima, prapti, isita... They also want. Therefore our Vaisnava poet,
Kaviraja Gosvami, he says, bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kami sakali asanta:
"Those who are after something -- either enjoyment of this material
world or enjoyment of spiritually becoming one or to have some siddhis
-- they want something, so they cannot be happy." Because there is
demand, "I want this." Maybe I want better thing than you, but I want.
I am in need. So therefore those who are in need, they cannot be
happy. Bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kami sakali asanta, krsna-bhakta niskama
[Cc. Madhya 19.149]. Krsna-bhakta doesn't want anything. Ataeva santa.
So he is... He is satisfied. Svamin krtartho 'smi varam na yace: [Cc.
Madhya 22.42] "I don't want. I am fully satisfied." Dhruva Maharaja,
he went to the forest, underwent very severe austerity, and when Lord
Visnu appeared before him -- "Take benediction, whatever you like" --
he said, svamin krtartho 'smi varam na yace: "I have no more demand. I
am fully satisfied." So this is the teaching. If we want to be fully
satisfied, without any demand for sense gratification, then we become
happy, and that is available in full Krsna consciousness. That is...
Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va
jagadisa kamaye. We don't want. People want money and many followers,
nice wife, but Caitanya Mahaprabhu refuses.
na dhanam na janam na sundarim
kavitam va jagadisa kamaye
mama janmani janmanisvare
bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi
[Cc. Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4]
"Let me remain Your servant janmani janmani." Mukti means no more
janma. So He doesn't want even mukti. Bhukti-mukti-siddhi. For a
devotee, either this life or next life, the business is the same, to
serve Krsna.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Evening Darsana -- May 12, 1977, Hrishikesh