Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 6.197
Material Attachment Can Make Misery Seem Happy
“My dear Raghunātha dāsa, your father and his elder brother are just like worms in stool in the ditch of material enjoyment, for the great disease of the poison of material enjoyment is what they consider happiness.
What the purport teaches
- A person attached to material enjoyment may accept many miserable conditions as happiness.
- The purport compares this attachment to a worm unable to leave stool. The comparison shows how strongly sense enjoyment can hold a person.
- What seems enjoyable to a deeply attached person appears utterly miserable to liberated souls.
Try this today
Identify one pleasure that brings recurring distress, and pause before pursuing it today.
Ask yourself
Is there an enjoyment I cling to even though it repeatedly brings distress?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.