The fact is in this world nobody is truly happy. Think about it!
Ask yourself are you really happy and satisfied?
Impossible! Veda Vyas says in the Bhagwatam -quoting "Shrimad Bhagwat"
quoting "Shrimad Bhagwat" only two
kinds of people are Suki (Happy) one is the God realized saint who is risen beyond miseries & dualities
that person is happy and the second, is the mad man. The mad man is also happy. Because the mad man has removed himself from
all the miseries, like you take a bottle destroys the intellect now you find your
neighbour lying in the gutter in front of his house you say, my dear neighbor
why are you lying in the gutter go and lie in your bedroom. He says I'm lying in my bedroom
The intellect got it destroyed he is thinking this is the
bedroom, similarly if somebody is a madman he can
say I am happy, if somebody is a God realized saint he can say I'm happy
Everybody else has to admit we are not fully happy as yet.
Because ultimately from light of the divine truth we're in the world of maya, the world of the material energy.
this is like the prison house of god were those souls are who have
their backs to him. We all have our backs to God so we are here in this prison
house, in the cycle of life and death now we people make our prisons, have you
ever been to jail?
No! I've been many times. Not to get admitted to give lectures, so the first
time I went to jail, you know I was
young person who just started giving these lectures and the jailer of the district
used to come, he said Swamiji can you please come to jail now this was my
first experience. He put me in front of these thirty prisoners and said speak to
them. None of them was even looking up they were all looking down as if
embarrassed to see me in the eye. Now what to speak to them.
So involuntarily I am blurted out, I said are you all unhappy? Suddenly they
came to life yes yes yes started moving their hands and looking up and they
thought maybe this Swamiji has got some magic wand, he will move it and we will
become happy. I said you are unhappy, very good.
What very good?! this Swamiji at least he should have a compassionate
heart we are saying we are unhappy and he's saying very good he's putting salt
in our wounds. I said what is the purpose of the prison house? To keep you unhappy
if you became happy in the prison house
then when the government released you you will say what to do so I can become the
government's guest again. There is a reason why the prison house
is a place of some extent of hardship and if you can get all that you want in the
prison house it doesn't serve the purpose similarly, this is the prison house of God
and the material energy Maya ensures that until you have your face to God
until you have surrendered to God you cannot be happy.
"Quoting from Ramayan", the Ramayan says
fire may emanate from the ice but vimukh (disinclined) of Ram nobody can be happy.
Now everybody knows that they are not happy but what you don't know is that the
others are also not happy if you did you will become detached, oh my God I'm
running in the wrong direction but the problem is you are thinking millionaire,
billionaire must be happy you know my wife she's a avatar of 'Chandi', his
wife he must be happy and if you came to know that all husband's and all wives
are unhappy then you'd say Ram Ram Ram. One man he would always complain to God my lord
you have written all miseries in my life everybody else is so happy.
So God said let me reveal something to him, the reality of the world. God came at
night and his dream and he's spoke he said take all your miseries and put
them in a bag, bring the bag to the 'Comfort Inn' I shall meet you in the hall
there
he woke up, he said my my what a dream, there are dreams & there are dreams
invariably they have no meaning, then once in a while some dream comes along where you say my
God this was so vivid, there is something to it, God was actually speaking to me. So he
said take all your miseries, okay let me obey
he took his miseries put them in the bag put the bag on his shoulder and he
walked out of his house. It was four in the morning.
It was dark as yet, he found his neighbors are also coming out with one one bag.
He said what, they are doing the same thing, so did God get the same
dream to them as well and they also have their misery bag, I thought they are
very happy. This guy has got this big car and this big house
and their bags are even bigger than mine, I wonder what is in his bag and
what is in his bag. All the neighbors gathered in the
Comfort Inn with their misery bags. God started speaking, he said I have dug the
nails into the walls, hang your bag from the nail any nail and stand by the side
of your misery bag. Observe the other misery bags, you can take your pick
The lights are going to go away for 10 minutes after 10 minutes the lights will
come back. Within that interval whichever bag you have selected you can go and
stand by the side of it. When the lights come on whoever is standing by the side
of whichever bag can pick it up and go away.
It will be a fair exchange
everybody looked around.
The lights went off after ten minutes the lights came back
the astonishing thing found was that everybody was standing by the side of
their own bag.
They said you know I choose my own bag let's play it safe, at least I know what
is inside it I've got a little bit of knee pain and my child is giving a
little problem and mortgage is a little difficulty put the other guy's bag, you
know nowadays this Zika virus spreading and the swine flu hasn't gone away
completely who knows what is there in his bag! Even Ebola had reached Dallas my
my my so each person they took their own misery bag and they went off and the
illusion they had I'm not happy the others are happy was dispelled.
Nobody is happy here, so don't develop these wrong paradigms that you know good
people bad things are happening and the reverse of this why are good things
happening to bad people. Keep it in the proper light.