Human life is for tapasya and spiritual transcendence, not mere sense gratification dressed in philosophical garments.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.1–8 — September 6, 1973, Stockholm 730906SB-STOCKHOLM [40:15 Minutes] SB-05.05.01–08_730906SB-STOCKHOLM Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] ṛṣabha uvāca nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam [SB 5.5.1] Prabhupāda: Go on.
Prabhupāda: Yes, eight verses. Pradyumna: mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam mahāntas te sama-cittāḥ praśāntā vimanyavaḥ... Prabhupāda: Vimanyavaḥ. [corrects pronunciation] Pradyumna: vimanyavaḥ suhṛdaḥ sādhavo ye [SB 5.5.2] e vā mayīśe kṛta-sauhṛdārthā janeṣu dehambhara-vārtikeṣu gṛheṣu jāyātmaja-rātimatsu na prīti-yuktā yāvad-arthāś ca loke [SB 5.5.3] nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma yad indriya-prītaya āpṛṇoti... [SB 5.5.4] [break] [03:09] Prabhupāda: ...nice instruction by Ṛṣabhadeva. Ṛṣabhadeva was incarnation of God.
He was instructing His sons before retirement. So He's instructing nāyaṁ dehaḥ, this body, deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke. Deha-bhājām means one who has accepted this material body. Actually, this body has no existence.
It is simply a covering; therefore it is called māyā. Everyone, we have got experience that at night we forget this body. We act in a different body in dream. At night we feel there is no existence of this body, and at night, dreaming, we get another body, walking in a different place, creating a different situation, acting in a different body.
It is a fact, every day, every night, we see it like this. And during the daytime we forget that night body. So actually we are possessing the gross body and the subtle body. When we act on the subtle body, the gross body is no longer existing, and when we work in the gross body, the subtle body is not existing. But I am existing.
I am existing both in the subtle body and gross body. This day's body is also a dream, but we are so foolish that we do not understand it. Mad. We are mad after.
Therefore this subtle body and gross body, and their vanishing at daytime and night's time, the cats and dogs cannot understand. But a man, if he has got cool brain, he can understand. [aside:] What is that sound? Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye [SB 5.5.1]. This daytime or nighttime, we work so hard, but what is the aim? Aim is to satisfy senses.