Hard Struggle for Happiness
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Man is therefore suffering due to his insatiable desires and lusts. Not only is man suffering, but the planet on which he resides, his mother earth, represented in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  by mother cow, is also suffering. Once a well-known  svāmī  in India was asked whether God or providence is responsible for the sufferings of humanity. The  svāmī  replied that these sufferings were all God's pastimes or  līlā . The questioner continued to ask why a living entity should be put under the dictations of the law of  karma . The  svāmī  could not answer these questions to the satisfaction of his inquirers. The monists and impersonalists who think only in terms of the oneness of the living entities with the Supreme Lord cannot give satisfactory answers to such questions. Such an imperfect reply can hardly satisfy the heart of a living entity.
The Lord is described in all scriptures as  līlā-puruṣottama , or the Personality of Godhead, who is by His own nature always engaged in transcendental pastimes. In the  Vedānta-sūtra  He is also described as  ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt . The monists and impersonalists try with great difficulty to explain this  sūtra  in diverse ways in order to support their imperfect theory of oneness and impersonality. However, the fact remains that  ānanda , pleasure, cannot be enjoyed alone. That variety is the mother of enjoyment is a well-known fact. Cities, for instance, are known to be attractive if they contain a variety of things. Living entities are naturally attracted by variety, by attractive streets, buildings, cinemas, parks, conveyances, businesses, employments, foodstuffs, etc. Despite all this variety, the English poet Cowper once