Choose ultimate benefit over immediate pleasure through Krishna consciousness and surrender to God's service.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
] Prabhupāda: ...this Sāṅkhya philosophy is very much well known, especially in the Western world. The propounder of Sāṅkhya philosophy, Kapiladeva, son of Devahūti, is the incarnation of Kṛṣṇa. He says that yoga ādhyātmikaḥ puṁsāṁ mato niḥśreyasāya me [SB 3.25.13]. [The Personality of Godhead answered: The yoga system which relates to the Lord and the individual soul, which is meant for the ultimate benefit of the living entity, and which causes detachment from all happiness and distress in the material world, is the highest yoga system.] Niḥśreyasāya: ultimate benediction. Śreyaḥ and preyaḥ; there are two things. One is called preyaḥ.
Preyaḥ means immediately pleasing. And śreyaḥ means ultimately benefit, benediction. Generally, conditioned souls, they are attracted with immediate pleasing things. Just like children: they are attracted by playthings more than education.
They do not like to go to school. They like to play the whole day. In my childhood also, I was very naughty boy, and I was not going to school. And my mother kept a special man to drag me to the school. At that time, there was no system like in your country, school buses.
One had to go to school on foot. So my father was very lenient. I was not going to school. Preyaḥ, pleasing.
Children like to play. Similarly, there are two paths, śreyaḥ and preyaḥ. So śreyaḥ means... Preyaḥ means sense gratification.
We have got our senses, material senses, and we want to satisfy them without any consideration the sequence, the bad results of sense gratification. In the Bhāgavatam there is one passage in which it is stated that yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham [SB 7.9.45]. [Sex life is compared to the rubbing of two hands to relieve an itch. Gṛhamedhis, so-called gṛhasthas who have no spiritual knowledge, think that this itching is the greatest platform of happiness, although actually it is a source of distress. The kṛpaṇas, the fools who are just the opposite of brāhmaṇas, are not satisfied by repeated sensuous enjoyment. Those who are dhīra, however, who are sober and who tolerate this itching, are not subjected to the sufferings of fools and rascals.] Persons who are conditioned in the society, friendship and love, this is the attraction for material life. "Society, friendship and love," they think, "divinely bestowed upon man." But that, it is not divinely bestowed upon man. From spiritual point of view, it is the gift of māyā. Society, friendship and love is the gift of māyā, illusion. Actually, the society with which we associate, and friendship which we make here, and so-called love, how long?
Now, supposing I am now in human society. How long I shall remain in human society? I am preparing for my next life, or the next society. I may be transferred to dog society.