True happiness does not exist in all of the material cosmos, because it is a world of suffering. In the spiritual and absolute world, the beings who live there act only within the framework of the service of love and pure devotion which they offer to God, established that they are in the consciousness of Krishna or consciousness of God. Because God has absolute fullness, beings engaged in his service in turn find fullness in themselves. Because they naturally think of Krishna, God, pure beings always bathe in the most perfect joy.
Living beings only find their normal, happy condition in contact with the internal energy of God.
The spiritual world is the real home of the embodied spiritual beings that we are all. This eternal spiritual world is called Vaikuntha and, in Sanskrit it means “the world without anxiety”. Everything is effulgent and filled with conscience and bliss. The dimension of Vaikuntha, the spiritual world, is inconceivable, because in reality it is unlimited. When the virtuous being, the great soul, enters the kingdom of God, he immediately feels himself swimming in the ocean of spiritual bliss, diving and then rising to the surface of the sublime ocean in an uninterrupted movement. He is submerged in a pure feeling of love and unparalleled joy. God is the source, and by his energy of bliss distributes it to all. Such is true sublime happiness. It is in the kingdom of God that there is peace, fullness, true eternal life, true perfect happiness and real freedom.
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The Lord said: “To use true language directed towards the good of all, but still to avoid hurtful words, as well as to recite assiduously the scriptures, such are the austerities of the verb. Serenity, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purity of thought, these are the austerities of the mind. Practiced with faith by men whose goal is not to obtain for themselves some material benefit, but to satisfy the Supreme, the triple union of these austerities proceeds from Virtue. As for ostentatious penances, which seek respect, honor and reverence for men, they are said to belong to the Passion. They are only unstable and ephemeral. Finally, penances and austerities carried out by foolishness, and made of obstinate tortures, or undergone with a view to hurting, destroying, they are said to come from ignorance. The charity dictated by duty, done without expecting anything in return, in fair conditions of time and place, and to whom is worthy, this charity, it is said to be accomplished under the sign of Virtue. But the charity that inspires the hope of reward, or the desire for a material fruit, or done reluctantly, this one is said to belong to the Passion. Finally, charity which is not