Let us examine some of the following examples where people try to enjoy the sitauation.
- People want to look extra-ordinary. Why? Because they want to enjoy the situation of being different than other.
- We want to get first position in exam to enjoy the situation of being successful.
- We want to play game because you want to enjoy the situation of being successful player.
- Some want to make girlfriend (or boyfriend) because you want to enjoy the situation of being loved.
- Some people want to develop some types of relationship either physical or mental or social to enjoy respective relationship.
In each of the above cases the
central point is 'our enjoying mentality'. Actually we become jealous and eventually get misdirected by the urge of senses (lust) . We search the
situation when and where we can enjoy fully. In each case we want to
show us superior to other. We get satisfaction to see the failure of
other and success of own. We are misdirected in this point.
Despite
of our hard effort to enjoy something we never become successful to
enjoy that. In fact our hard labor for enjoying something results in pain and failure. We get bound to those things and eventually ruin our life. It is because we do it in wrong way. If hands need energy
then we have to provide food to stomach via mouth first. Only then hands
can get energy. If hands are jealous with stomach and only try to
directly feed then there is no chance for hands to get energy. It is because it is
possible to feed hands only by providing food to stomach first but not
directly to hands. Here, supreme enjoyer is God (Krishna) . He is the
source of everyone’s enjoyment. Thus if we want to really enjoy
something then we have to totally dedicate it to Krishna. We have to
make Krishna happy. This is possible only if we develop service mood rather than enjoying mood. We have to give up our enjoying mentality. Only then we can get the portion of enjoyment. Thus
Vedic scriptures clearly state that: