This material world is very, very fierceful to the devotees. They are very, very much afraid of. This is the difference. Materialistic persons, they are thinking, "This world is very pleasing. We are enjoying. Eat, drink, be merry and enjoy." But the devotees, they think, "It is very, very fierceful. How soon we shall get out of it?" My Guru Maharaja used to say that "This material world is not fit for living for any gentleman." He used to say. "No gentleman can live here." So these things are not understood by the nondevotees, how much pinching this material world is. Duhkhala... Krsna says it is duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15]. That is the difference between the devotee and nondevotee. The duhkhalayam, they are trying to adjust how to make it sukhalayam. That is not possible.
By H.D.G.Srila Prabhupada
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