14 Elevation to Krsna Consciousness

makes even the enjoyment of impersonal Brahman
as insignificant as a drop of water in comparison to
the ocean.

Every living being desires the topmost level of
enjoyment in this material world, and yet everyone
is unhappy here. This unhappiness is present on all
the higher planets, despite a longer lifespan, higher
standards of enjoyment and comfort. That is due to
the law of material nature. We can increase the
duration of life and standard to the highest capacity,
and yet by the law of material nature we will be
unhappy. The reason for this is that the quality of
happiness which is suitable for our constitution is
different from the happiness which is derived from
material activities. The living entity is a minute
particle of the superior spiritual energy of the Lord,
which is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha, and therefore he has
the necessary propensity for joy which is spiritual in
quality. Unfortunately for him, he is trying vainly to
attain his enjoyment from the foreign atmosphere
of material nature.

A fish that is taken out of the water cannot be
happy by any arrangement on land. He must be
supplied with water. In the same way, the minute
sac-cid-ananda living entity cannot be really happy
through any amount of planning conceived by his
illusioned brain in this material universe. He must
therefore be given a different type of happiness
which is spiritual in essence. Our ambition should be
aimed at enjoying spiritual bliss and not this tempo-
rary happiness. Some philosophers claim that spiri-
tual bliss is attained by negating material happiness
