Text 37] Kapila’s Instructions on Devotional Service 1217
perceptions of so-called happiness and distress. Actually there is no happi-
ness. 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-paratma-kasthah.
Upalabdha means realization. Realization necessarily indicates individual-
ity. In the perfectional, liberated stage, there is actual realization.
Nivrttya means that the living entity keeps his individuality; oneness
means that he realizes happiness in the happiness of the Supreme Lord.
Inthe Supreme Lord there is nothing but happiness. Anandamayo’bhyasat:
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.

TEXT 37
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TA TH THA ATA: III
deharh ca tam na caramah sthitam utthitam va
siddho vipasyati yato ‘dhyagamat svaripam
daivad upetam atha daiva-vasdd apetam
vaso yathd parikrtam madira-madandhah
deham—material body; ca—and; tam—that; na—not; caramah—last;
sthitam—sitting; utthitam—rising; vd—or; siddhah—the realized soul; vipasyati
—can conceive; yatah—because; adh yagamat—he has achieved; sva-riipam—
his real identity; daivat—according to destiny; upetam—arrived; atha—
moreover; daiva-vasat—according to destiny; avetam—departed; vasah—
clothing; yatha—as; parikrtam—put on; madiraé-mada-andhah—one who is
blinded by intoxication.
