6 On the Way to Krsna

are different kinds and grades of living entities, and
their conceptions and perceptions of happiness are
also of all different types and grades. Although one
animal may see that another animal is being slaugh-
tered, he will go right on chewing grass, for he has
no knowledge to understand that he may be
next. He is thinking that he is happy, but at the next
moment he may be slaughtered.

In this way there are different degrees of happi-
ness. Yet of all of them, what is the highest happi-
ness? Sri Krsna'tells Arjuna:

sukham atyantikam yat tad
buddhi-grah yam atindriyam
vetti yatra na caivayam
sthitas calati tattvatah
“In that joyous state (samadhi), one is situated in
boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys him-
self through transcendental senses. Established thus,
one never departs from the truth.” (Bg. 6.21)

Buddhi means intelligence; one has to be intelli-
gent if he wants to enjoy. Animals do not have really
developed intelligence and so cannot enjoy life as a
human being can. The hands, the nose, the eyes, the
other sense organs and all the bodily parts may be
present on a dead man, but he cannot enjoy. Why
not? The enjoying energy, the spiritual spark, has
left, and therefore the body has no power. If one
looks further into the matter with a little intelligence,
he can understand that it was not the body that was
enjoying at all but the small spiritual spark that was
within. Although one may think that he is enjoying
