This material world is a pretty bitter place. Even if is it sometimes experienced as being sweet it very quickly gets bitter again. There is no lasting sweetness here.
But if we take a deep look at the situation, we will see that whatever sweetness we taste here is not genuine sweetness. It is simply a reduction of the bitterness. Sometimes when the bitterness is not so bad we take this reduced bitterness to be sweetness when factually speaking it is not. It is bitterness only.
Even though we are hankering to always experience sweetness, we are forced to take the bitter pills of birth, death, old age, and disease lifetime after lifetime. For anyone who has a reasonable degree of sensitivity this situation is, quite frankly, disappointing. Why should we say disappointing? That is an understatement. It is more proper to understand that it is downright frustrating.
What can be done about this unpleasant situation? Where's the exit door out of this syndrome? Or should we say "sin-drome"? Just see. That is the key. As long as we engage in activities that are sinful, i.e. not harmonious with the will of the Supreme Person, we will continue to taste the bitterness of an unnatural, problematic existence. And as soon as we agree to attune our individual consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness, things will change diametrically from bitterness to sweetness. In other words all we really have to do is get back in sync, in a state of loving obedience, with the supreme reservoir of unlimited sweetness, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna. When we do so, we will find ourselves submerged in an ocean of unlimited, ever-increasing sweetness fully absorbing ourselves 24/7 in hearing, chanting, remembering, and serving the transcendental name, fame, forms, entourage, dham, teachings, and paraphernalia that supremely attractive person, Sri Krishna. This supreme state of spiritual attunement is called Krishna Consciousness.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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