People have become mad, pramattah, and doing all sinful activities. Nunam pramattah kurute vikarma. Vikarma means sinful activities. And why they are doing so? Yad indriya-pritaya aprnoti: "Simply for sense gratification." There is no higher aim, only sense gratification. The sastra says, na sadhu ayam: "This is not good." Why? Because on account of our sinful activities we have already got this painful, miserable, conditioned life, this body, and if we still go on like that, then again we shall get such body and suffering. This is sense. This is jnana. Every one of us, we are trying to be happy without any suffering. That is the aim of life. Anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12). We are living beings, part and parcel of Krsna. Our nature is to become happy, pleased, joyful. But this is not the way of becoming happy, joyful, and enjoy pleasure. This is not the way. The way is different. That is Krsna consciousness.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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