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Kapila's Instructions on Devotional Service
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perceptions of so-called happiness and distress. Actually there is no happiness. Just as there is no happiness in any of the activities of a madman, so in material activities the mental concoctions of happiness and distress are false. Actually everything is distress.
When the mind is dovetailed to act according to the desire of the Lord, that is the transcendental stage. The desire to lord it over material nature is the cause of ignorance, and when that desire is completely extinguished and the desires are dovetailed with those of the Supreme Lord, that is the perfectional stage.  Upalabdha-parātma-kāṣṭhaḥ.   Upalabdha  means realization. Realization necessarily indicates individuality. In the perfectional, liberated stage, there is actual realization.  Nivṛttyā  means that the living entity keeps his individuality; oneness means that he realizes happiness in the happiness of the Supreme Lord. In the Supreme Lord there is nothing but happiness.  Ānandamayo'bhyāsāt:  the Lord is by nature full of transcendental happiness. In the liberated stage, oneness with the Supreme Lord means that one has no realization other than happiness. But the individual still exists, otherwise this word  upalabdha , individual realization of transcendental happiness, would not have been used.
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देहं च तं न चरमः स्थितमुत्थितं वा 
  सिद्धो विपश्यति यतोऽध्यगमत्सरूपम्। 
  दैवादुपेतमथ दैववशादपेतं 
  वासो यथा परिकृतं मदिरामदान्यः ॥३७॥
deham ca tam na caramaḥ sthitam utthitam vā  
 siddho vipaśyati yato 'dhyagamat svarūpam  
 daivād upetam atha daiva-vaśād apetam  
 vāso yathā parikṛtam madirā-madāndhaḥ
deham —material body;  ca —and;  tam —that;  na —not;  caramaḥ —last;  sthitam —sitting;  utthitam —rising;  vā —or;  siddhaḥ —the realized soul;  vipaśyati —can conceive;  yataḥ —because;  adhyagamat —he has achieved;  sva-rūpam —his real identity;  daivāt —according to destiny;  upetam —arrived;  atha —moreover;  daiva-vaśāt —according to destiny;  apetam —departed;  vāsaḥ —clothing;  yathā —as;  parikṛtam —put on;  madirā-mada-andhaḥ —one who is blinded by intoxication.