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Jun 2023
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1075: The Pursuit of Happiness is the Pu...

RAGHUNATH CAPPO & KAUSTUBHA DAS
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Krishna is naturally controlled by love / the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality / self realization not sense gratification / Krishna creates this world only because the conditioned souls want to enjoy it / if life seems unfair it might just be that the scoreboard is displaying a score based on previous play (karma) / expect that things won't go smoothly

SB 5.18.38-39

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