56 Sri ISopanigad

various plans. What, then, will be accomplished by the tiny
Hiranyakagipus of today, who make plans which are throttled
from moment to moment?

Sri Isopanisad instructs us not to make one-sided attempts
to ‘win the struggle for existence. Everyone is struggling hard
for existence, but the law of material Nature is so hard and fast
that it does not allow any to surpass it. In order to have per-
manent life one must be prepared to go back to Godhead.

This process of going back to Godhead is a different branch
of knowledge, and it has to be learnt from the revealed Vedic
Scriptures, such as the Upanisads, Vedanta, Bhagavad-gita,
Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc. Therefore, to become happy in this
life and to get a permanent blissful life after leaving this material
body, one must take to this sacred literature and obtain
transcendental knowledge. The conditioned living being has
forgotten his eternal relation with God, and he has mistakenly
accepted the temporary place of birth as all-in-all. The Lord has
kindly delivered the above-mentioned Scriptures in India and
other Scriptures in other countries to remind the forgetful
human being that his home is not here in this material world.
The living being is a spiritual entity, and he can only be happy
by returning to his spiritual home, with the Godhead.

The Personality of Godhead, from Ilis Kingdom, sends His
bona fide servants to propagate this mission of going back to
Godhead, and sometimes He comes Ilimself to do this work.
All living beings are His beloved sons, Ilis parts and parcels, and
therefore God is more sorry than we ourselves are for the
sufferings which we are constantly undergoing in the material
condition. The miseries of the material world are also indirect
reminders of our incompatibility wilh dead matter, and in-
telligent living entities generally take note of these reminders,
and side by side engage themselves in the culture of vidya, or
transcendental knowledge. Human life is the best opportunity
for the culture of spiritual knowledge, and the human being who
does not take advantage of this opportunity in human life is
