True satisfaction comes only through unmotivated devotional service to Krishna, not material prosperity or bodily identification.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6 — September 4, 1972, New Vrindavan 720904SB-NEW VRINDAVAN [57:20 Minutes] SB-01.02.06_720904SB-NEW VRINDAVAN Prabhupāda: Yes, next verse. Pradyumna: Sa vai puṁsāṁ?
Prabhupāda: Which one we have read? Brūhi yogeśvare kṛṣṇe brahmaṇye... No. Pradyumna: Munayaḥ sādhu pṛṣṭo 'haṁ.
Prabhupāda: Yes, next verse. Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ahaituky apratihatā yayātmā suprasīdati [SB 1.2.6] Prabhupāda: That's all. Any lady? [Mahara chants, corrects pronunciation] [referring to microphone:] It is working?
I think this verse should have this come here. Adhokṣaje. Bhaktir adhokṣaje. So, word meaning?
Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms] saḥ—that; vai—certainly; puṁsām—for mankind; paraḥ—sublime; dharmaḥ—occupation; yataḥ—by which; bhaktiḥ—devotional service; adhokṣaje—unto the Transcendence; ahaitukī—causeless; apratihatā—unbroken; yayā—by which; ātmā—self; suprasīdati—completely satisfied. [05:43] Translation: "The supreme occupation, or dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted in order to completely satisfy the self." Prabhupāda: So, sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ahaituky apratihatā yayātmā suprasīdati [SB 1.2.6] Everyone is seeking satisfaction, atyantikṣu. Everyone is struggling for existence for the ultimate happiness. But in this material world, although they are thinking by possessing material wealth they will be satisfied, but that is not the fact.
For example, in your country you have got sufficient material opulence than other countries, but still there is no satisfaction. So in spite of all good arrangement for material enjoyment—enough food, enough..., nice apartment, motorcars, roads, and very good arrangement for freedom in sex, and good arrangement for defense also—everything is complete—but still, people are dissatisfied, confused, and younger generation, they are turning to hippies, protest, or dissatisfaction because they are not happy. I have several times cited the example that in Los Angeles, when I was taking my morning walk in Beverly Hills, many hippies were coming out from a very respectable house. It appeared that his father, he has got a very nice car also, but the dress was hippie. So there is a protest against the so-called material arrangement.
They do not like. Actually, we cannot be happy by material prosperity. That is a fact. That is also stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Prahlāda Mahārāja says to his atheistic father...