This Problem One Should Tolerate

[suchandra]

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.18

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Vṛndāvana, November 6, 1976

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[...]Not that “I have got some pain here, I have some trouble or some…” These are not problems. This problem one should tolerate. Because destiny is there, one should āgamāpāyino nityā tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata. We should not be disturbed for all these things. It is material world. You will have sometimes mātrā sparśās tu śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ. The whole world is like that.

There is sometimes distress, there is sometimes happiness. So to

mitigate the worldly distress or getting some happiness, one should

not go to guru. That is not the proper way.

 

The proper way is that you should know the problem of life, and Kṛṣṇa personally says, “This is the real problem of your life.” What is that? Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha doṣānudarśanam. This is problems. But they do not know. All rascals. Kṛṣṇa says, na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācit.[...]