If this world is a place of misery why does it have so much pleasure too?

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supreme lord directly if this world is meant to be a place of misery why is there so much pleasure when we have children when we have loved ones when we have friends there is so much pleasure in this world also so why is that the pleasure in this world is a pointer to the supreme pleasure that is in God the point of this world is to point beyond this world the point of this world is to point beyond this world that means the pleasure that we have in this world they are real Krishna says yad yad vibhuti mat sattvam shrima durjitam eva va tattat eva va gacchatvam mumiteeju whatever is attractive in this world it manifests the spark of my splendor so in our relationships in our hobbies in our inspirations we get some pleasure that pleasure is a spark and that spark also enlivens us but it is temporary the spark cannot provide the illumination and the warmth that the sun can provide similarly we do get pleasure in various things in this world but they cannot provide us lasting pleasure so we act responsibly in these roles that we have if we have a relationship we act responsibly in those relationships if we have talents we act in a dedicated way to develop those talents Krishna says through your work worship me but we don’t think that these things alone will make me happy basically when we see a spark we can see that spark as something which can alone give me happiness and I don’t need God or we can take that spark because I have that spark I don’t need God and I will go away from God or I can see this spark is actually a spark of God so let me take it towards let it take me towards God so the attractive things of this world they can take us away from God or they can infatuate us so much that we don’t care about God we don’t necessarily become atheistic or materialistic we just become apathetic towards God or we can see the attractive things as pointers towards God and they can inspire us to move towards God so when we get fulfillment in the relationships in this world we can say ok this relationship although it is temporary it is giving me so much fulfillment so in eternal relationship how much more fulfillment it will give the point of this world is to point beyond this world so the world is like a bridge for us to redirect our love from the temporary to the eternal from the things in this world to the source of those things and that way the world serves its purpose atheists can point to how there are so many things right in this world if you consider how rains come the whole mechanism by which we get rains is very complex how sun evaporates water and clouds are formed and then the water falls and we get rains so the atheists can look at the world and say there is so much right in this world therefore God exists atheists can look at the world and say there is so much wrong in this world the same rain it causes floods, it causes famines it causes suffering, it causes death where is God the point is that if you look at the material level alone we see there is order order in terms of the way rains come there is order but we also see distress so where is the place where we have both order and distress if we look at order alone we say God exists, if we say distress alone we say God doesn’t exist but if you look at order and distress, both are present in a hospital in a hospital there is distress, there is pain but there is also order this person has got a heart attack, go do this this person has got high blood pressure, do this so the point of the hospital is that both are there misery is also there there is also order over there the point of the hospital is to cure the patient so this world’s point is not to deny the pleasures of this world but to deny those pleasures the right to monopolize our heart we don’t think that these pleasures alone will make me happy and we don’t let them displace God from our heart rather we let them point us towards God, this is so attractive how much more will Krishna be attractive let me become attracted to Krishna does it answer your question