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No one can keep wealth, beauty or fame for long in this material world.
However, an aspiring bhakti yogi keeps every grain of spiritual advancement that he or she makes.
The Vedic scriptures advise one therefore, to direct one’s desires toward making spiritual advancement rather than hankering for changeable things that will soon fade or be taken away.
“Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable even by wandering from the topmost planet [Brahmaloka] down to the lowest planet [Patala]. As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them.” (Srimad-bhagavatam 1.5.18)
Vaisesika Dasa
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