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RC VRN 1976-09-04 Happy Within Yourself
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ANNOUNCER: The
following is a conversation,
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on September 4th,
1976, in Vṛndāvana, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: First of all, what is the
problem and what is the solution?
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What is the problem that
you require solution?
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INDIAN MAN: Sir, any problem which comes.
- No, what is that? That I want to know.
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Problem is of being
happy in the world.
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These are vague terms.
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You must distinctly say that this
is happiness and this is problem.
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What is your, what is the idea of
happiness and what is the problem?
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That I want to know.
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That I’m not very much
clear at this stage of life.
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Happiness, suppose if you can get a nice
palatable dish for eating, you’ll be happy.
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But the dog also, if he can get
some good eating, he’ll be happy.
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So where is the difference between
dog’s happiness and your happiness?
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Happiness should be
combined with mental peace.
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What is that mental peace?
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To rest in yourself only.
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Don’t run after worldly things.
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Yes.
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But that is not possible
for the animal.
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Therefore to remain happy within yourself,
that is a prerogative of the human being.
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But we are not trying
for that purpose.
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We are trying to be happy by eating,
by sleeping, by sex or by defense.
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This is our platform of happiness.
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A dog cannot go to the restaurant,
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but a human being,
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if he goes to a restaurant and
he can eat palatable dishes:
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He thinks he’s happy.
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But what is that eating?
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In your standard
you feel happiness,
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whereas on the street you’ll find
a pig, he’s happy by eating stool.
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One man’s food
another man’s poison.
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So, eating happiness is there
but the standard different.
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Therefore this eating
is common affair,
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and happiness derived from eating
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is as good by the dog as by
the pig and human being.
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Your idea is clear.
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So we should know… Happiness
is described in the Bhagavad-gītā:
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sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad
buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam
[Bg. 6.21]
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What is happiness, that
is beyond the senses.
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The sense happiness is there
by the pig and the man.
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But his standard of sense happiness
is different from the man’s.
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The standard may be different,
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but the happiness derived from
the subject matter is the same.
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There is no difference.
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So happiness lies
above the senses.
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Above our indriyas.
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Ha.
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Happiness means
spiritual happiness.
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That they do not know.
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Therefore I began my words that so
long one is after material happiness
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he remains as an animal.
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Because the animal cannot
derive spiritual happiness.
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They do not know.
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The man can know.
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Just like this boy,
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he’s coming from very high family in
America but he’s now happy in this way,
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by taking sannyāsa,
giving up everything.
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Living very plainly.
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He has got money; he has got beautiful
wife; he has got beautiful home:
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Everything; but he
has given up. [splice]
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NEXT DAY: So these people,
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these Americans and
Europeans: they are intelligent.
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They are seeing that,
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“Here are some ideas which is not to
be found throughout the whole world.”
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