# Happiness *On finding true happiness through Kṛṣṇa consciousness* --- ### Real Standard > So before reaching to that point of frustration, if you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you reach the real standard of happiness, because everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### Self Is Satisfied > "The supreme occupation, dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendental Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted in order to completely satisfy the self." — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Eternally Ever-Increasing > Just like when we were chanting here you could feel some ecstasy. Well, this ecstasy grows unlimitedly and infinitely, eternally, if one takes to it. It's not as if you reach some point of enlightenment, and then you're enlightened. No. But it's always eternal, ever increasing. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- ### Sublime and Enlivening > So it is very pleasing and, what is called, encouraging, enlivening. After too much material enjoyment, the next stage is frustration. So these hippies, they are frustrating. They have given up everything. We can study their psychic movement. They are not satisfied. That is the main principle. — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### Nobody Is Loser > So by serving Kṛṣṇa, nobody is loser; he is gainer. He is gainer permanently, eternally. And we do not know what is the value of that gain now. Because we are materially covered, we think service means just like service in this world. — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### Automatically Satisfied > Actually, devotional service rendered to the Supreme Lord not for my satisfaction; but rendering devotional service to the Lord, the self is automatically satisfied. If I make a motive that "I shall render service to the Lord so that I will be very much satisfied..." No. No. That, that becomes motivated. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Already Fixed > Prahlāda Mahārāja says that don't be very busy for sense enjoyment. That is available in any condition of life, without any effort. And he's giving a very good example. Daivāt: by the superior arrangement. The hog, because he has been given the body of a hog, he must eat stool. That is daivāt. So daivāt means all arrangement is there. The standard of eating, standard of happiness, is already fixed up. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Seeing Success > As soon as you'll see, "Oh, I have done something for Kṛṣṇa..." Devotee does not feel it, but when he sees that another man has become devotee, he becomes very satisfied. Yayātmā suprasīdati. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa and Everyone Satisfied > Similarly, in the material world, whatever service you render, that is spoiling time. But you render service to Kṛṣṇa, you will be satisfied, Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied, and as Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied, everyone will be satisfied. — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### Touching Lotus Feet > Just like if you touch fire, immediately you become warm. Similarly, if you touch the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, immediately you become spiritualized. This is called purification. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on happiness* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]