Happiness is not there

 Happiness is not there, by Haripada dasa

In general, people think that happiness is in a life full of sense gratification and material comforts, and that I live to the bun and died to the hole, people who are attached to ignorance do not understand more than this, here I share the Bhagavatam, 5, 24, 8, there Srila Prabhupada says that according to the teachings of Prahlāda Mahārāja, material enjoyment is māyā-sukha, an illusory enjoyment. A Vaiṣṇava or devotee of God or Krishna has great anxieties to liberate all living entities from such false enjoyment.

Prahlāda Mahārāja says: māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān: Those fools (vimūḍhas) indulge in material happiness, which is undoubtedly temporary. Whether they belong to the heavenly planets or to the lower or terrestrial planets, people are absorbed in material happiness, which is temporary, and they forget that when the time comes, they will have to change bodies according to the laws of matter, and they will have to suffer again and again birth, death, old age and disease. The most attached materialists, without worrying about what will happen to them in their next life, are simply busy enjoying the brief period of their present life. The Vaiṣṇava is always willing to give these confused materialists true happiness, spiritual bliss.

And in the same chapter verse 14, Srila Prabhupada says that this is the defect of material existence. In the subterranean heavens everything is very pleasant; the living conditions are optimal, the atmosphere is pleasant, and there are no physical discomforts or mental anxieties; even so, the inhabitants of those places will have to be reborn, according to their karma. Dull-minded people cannot understand this defect of the materialistic civilization that aspires to material comforts. You can achieve very pleasant living conditions for the senses, but, however favorable those conditions are, when the time comes you have to face death. Members of demonic civilizations strive for a high level of comfort in life; but they cannot stop death. The influence of the Sudarśana cakra will not allow your supposed material happiness to last for long.