Text 37] Purusa-sikta Confirmed 319

Therefore liberty, happiness and all good fortune can be attained only
by surrendering unto the Lord because He is full liberty, full happiness and
full auspiciousness. Such liberation and happiness are also unlimited, and
they have been compared to the sky, although such liberation and
happiness are infinitely greater than the sky. In our present position we
can simply understand the magnitude of greatness when it is compared
with the sky. We fail to make a measurement of the sky, but the happiness
and liberty obtained in association with the Lord are far greater than the
sky. That spiritual happiness is so great that it cannot be measured, even
by the Lord Himself, not to speak of others.

It is said in the scriptures, brahma sukham hy anantam, spiritual happi-
ness is unlimited. Here it is said that even the Lord cannot measure such
happiness. This does not mean that the Lord cannot measure it and is
therefore imperfect in that sense. The actual position is that the Lord can
measure it, but the happiness in the Lord is also identical with the Lord on
account of absolute knowledge. So the happiness derived from the Lord
may be measured by the Lord, but the happiness increases again, and the
Lord measures it again, and then again the happiness increases more and
more, and the Lord measures it more and more, and as such there is
eternally a competition between increment and measurement, so much so
that the competition is never stopped, but goes on unlimitedly ad in-
finitum. Spiritual happiness is @nandambudhi-vardhanam, or the ocean of
happiness which increases. The material ocean is stagnant, but the spiritual
ocean is dynamic. In the Caitanya-caritamrta, (4th Chapter, Adi-lila)
Kaviraja Gosvami has very nicely described this dynamic increment of the
ocean of spiritual happiness in the transcendental person of Srimati
Radharani, the pleasure potency of Lord Krsna.

TEXT 37
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naham na yiiyam yad-rtarm gatim vidur
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tan-mayaya mohita-buddhayas tv idarn
vinirmitam catma-samam vicaksmahe
