Goal of Life



Lord Sri Krishna - The Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.10 says:

Life's desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should
desire only a healthy life, or self-preservation, since a human being is meant
for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else should be the goal of one's
works.

PURPORT

The completely bewildered material civilization is wrongly directed towards the
fulfillment of desires in sense gratification. In such civilization, in all
spheres of life, the ultimate end is sense gratification. In politics, social
service, altruism, philanthropy and ultimately in religion or even in salvation,
the very same tint of sense gratification is ever-increasingly predominant. In
the political field the leaders of men fight with one another to fulfill their
personal sense gratification. The voters adore the so-called leaders only when
they promise sense gratification. As soon as the voters are dissatisfied in
their own sense satisfaction, they dethrone the leaders, The leaders must always
disappoint the voters by not satisfying their senses. The same is applicable in
all other fields; no one is serious about the problems of life. Even those who
are on the path of salvation desire to become one with the Absolute Truth and
desire to commit spiritual suicide for sense
gratification. But the Bhagavatam says that one should not live for sense
gratification. One should satisfy the senses only insomuch as required for
self-preservation, and not for sense gratification. Because the body is made of
senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction, there are
regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses. But the senses are not
meant for unrestricted enjoyment. For example, marriage or the combination of a
man with a woman is necessary for progeny, but it is not meant for sense
enjoyment. In the absence of voluntary restraint, there is propaganda for family
planning, but foolish men do not know that family planning is automatically
executed as soon as there is search after the Absolute Truth. Seekers of the
Absolute Truth are never allured by unnecessary engagements in sense
gratification because the serious students seeking the Absolute Truth are always
overwhelmed with the work of researching the Truth. In every sphere of life,
therefore, the ultimate end must be seeking after the Absolute Truth, and that
sort of engagement will make one happy because he will be less engaged in
varieties of sense gratification. And what that Absolute Truth is is explained
as follows.

Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.10 says:

Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual
substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan.

PURPORT

The Absolute Truth is both subject and object, and there is no qualitative
difference there. Therefore, Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan are qualitatively
one and the same. The same substance is realized as impersonal Brahman by the
students of the Upanisads, as localized Paramatma by the Hiranyagarbhas or the
yogis, and as Bhagavan by the devotees. In other words, Bhagavan, or the
Personality of Godhead, is the last word of the Absolute Truth. Paramatma is the
partial representation of the Personality of Godhead, and impersonal Brahman is
the glowing effulgence of the Personality of Godhead, as the sun rays are to the
sun-god. Less intelligent students of either of the above schools sometimes
argue in favor of their own respective realization, but those who are perfect
seers of the Absolute Truth know well that the above three features of the one
Absolute Truth are different perspective views seen from different angles of
vision.

As it is explained in the first sloka of the First Chapter of the Bhagavatam,
the Supreme Truth is self-sufficient, cognizant and free from the illusion of
relativity. In the relative world the knower is different from the known, but in
the Absolute Truth both the knower and the known are one and the same thing. In
the relative world the knower is the living spirit or superior energy, whereas
the known is inert matter or inferior energy. Therefore, there is a duality of
inferior and superior energy, whereas in the absolute realm both the knower and
the known are of the same superior energy. There are three kinds of energies of
the supreme energetic. There is no difference between the energy and energetic,
but there is a difference of quality of energies. The absolute realm and the
living entities are of the same superior energy, but the material world is
inferior energy. The living being in contact with the inferior energy is
illusioned, thinking he belongs to the inferior energy.
Therefore there is the sense of relativity in the material world. In the
Absolute there is no such sense of difference between the knower and the known,
and therefore everything there is absolute.

Always chant

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

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