I can challenge that you are not happy

I can challenge you that you are not happy in the present set up of your affairs. You may have in your possession your so called accumulated material wealth, health or happiness but still you are always feeling some insufficiency and frustration and thus you are not happy as you ought to have been. If you do not feel like this, then you must be either an abnormal man or a liberated saint or in gross ignorance of lower consciousness. Should you feel yourself abnormally happy, I shall ask you the following plain questions. They are as follows:— 1) Do you like to die? 2) Do you like to take your birth again? 3) Do you like to be an old man? 4) Do you like to be a diseased man? I am sure you shall reply to all these questions by saying the only word "No.'' If you think yourself happy then have you solved all the above problems in any way? Have your vast resources of material knowledge helped you in solving these seemingly common but very big problems? Do you think that you shall ever be able to solve the above problems? If you say so, I shall again call you in abnormal condition. Do not remain in ignorance for your problems. The way in which you are seeking to be happy or trying to make others happy in your manufactured ideology—is called "Maya'' or illusion. By this you have simply been credited with creation of much disturbances and entanglement for all concerned. That is the record of history of the material world. Empire may come and empire may go, the problems of life remain the same. Please therefore be cool-headed and patiently ask within yourself if you are really happy.

Source:  
Friends of Lord Krishna (FOLK)
ISKCON, Bangalore

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