True peace arises solely from knowing Krishna as proprietor and friend, not from temporary material shelter or sense control.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.43 — January 18, 1975, Bombay 750118SB-BOMBAY [40:55 Minutes] SB-03.26.43_750118SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] kledanaṁ piṇḍanaṁ tṛptiḥ prāṇanāpyāyanondanam tāpāpanodo bhūyastvam ambhaso vṛttayas tu imāḥ [SB 3.26.43] [break] [03:19] "The characteristics of water are exhibited by its moistening other substances, coagulating various mixtures, causing satisfaction, maintaining life, softening things, driving away heat, incessantly supplying itself to reservoirs of water, and refreshing by slaking thirst." Prabhupāda: kledanaṁ piṇḍanaṁ tṛptiḥ prāṇanāpyāyanondanam tāpāpanodo bhūyastvam ambhaso vṛttayas tu imāḥ [SB 3.26.43] So this is analysis of water. So many things can be performed by water. Everything is being analytically studied.
Kṣitir āp tejo marud vyoma. So... But one thing important in this verse is that tāpa apanodaḥ, refreshing, refreshing. When you are thirsty, you drink water.
Immediately your thirst is satiated and you feel a fresh pleasure. So in the Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says that this qualification of the water, tāpa apanodaḥ... What is that verse? Āpo 'ham... Devotees: Raso 'ham... Prabhupāda: Raso 'ham. Raso 'ham kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ [Bg. 7.8].
So this satisfaction... Actually, our satisfaction can be revived only with relationship of Kṛṣṇa, revival of our relationship with Kṛṣṇa. That is śānti. Just like Dhruva Mahārāja, when he came in contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead...
He was hankering after material opulence, kingdom, a better kingdom than his father, than his grandfather. That was his ambition. As a child, he was insulted by his stepmother. So actually when he saw Viṣṇu, Lord Viṣṇu, he was so satisfied that he said, svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi varaṁ na yāce [Cc. Madhya 22.42]: "Now I have no more hankering." So this is also one tāpa. In this material world we are suffering so many varieties of tāpa. Tāpan vindanti maithunyam agaram ajhaḥ. [SB 5.5.7] It is simply full of tāpa.
Tāpa means heat, and tāpa means unbearable, miserable condition. Therefore from tāpa... It comes from tapa, tapasya. Tapasya means voluntarily accepting some unfavorable condition.
Of course, the soul is not affected by any favorable or unfavorable condition. Asaṅgo 'yaṁ puruṣaḥ. Actually, it has no connection with the favorable, unfavorable condition. It is simply abhiniveśa.