If the material world is perfect in itself, then why do we need to go to Godhead?

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Hare Krishna question if the material world is complete in itself then what is the need to go back home, back to Godhead how can we reply to people who want to enjoy here answer the material world is complete for its purpose all completeness is always in terms of in the context or in terms of its purpose so the material world is complete as arena for us for experimentation and rectification experimentation means those souls who want to enjoy in different ways in this world the world gives them a forum for enjoying, experimenting with different ideas for enjoyment and rectification means when they want to turn towards God and love and serve him and return back to him the material world provides the arena for that also but the material world is not permanent so even when it provides enjoyment that enjoyment is finite that limited enjoyment serves a glimpse of the eternal enjoyment that awaits us elsewhere so in that way it is perfect that it acts as a reminder of the eternal enjoyment available elsewhere that is in the spiritual world but in itself the enjoyment here is finite, it is limited and ultimately it is terminated by death or even before by the vicissitudes, the ups and downs of life so this is definitely not a perfect place for us to fulfill our longings for happiness perennially, forever so movies may say happily ever after but that never happens in real life so that’s why we have to understand the perfection in its context and realize that perfection by utilizing the material world for its perfect purpose, that is reformation, for redirecting our love from material things to Krishna now as far as people who want to enjoy this world is concerned for them we can basically talk about the very real miseries and problems of this world and contrast that with our very real and deep rooted longing for happiness and the mortality of this world and our very deep longing for immortality and then we can raise the question we want to live forever and we want to be happy but in this world we can’t live forever and if we are just honest about our experiences in life, we can’t be happy for very long, there might be some little few phases of happiness but after that there is so much trouble that comes up so then if this longing for happiness and eternal life were not meant to be fulfilled then where did it come from because we don’t see any fulfillment of it anywhere in the world around us, so where did it originate from, how did we at all get the idea that I should live forever so that is because we belong to eternal realm, we belong to blissful realm and because of that nature of ours that we are eternal and blissful that we long for that now so at that, where it can be fulfilled that is described in the scriptures and they talk about eternal spiritual world and eternal abode, eternal kingdom of god is talked about, not just in various scriptures but in all the great scriptures of the world in fact all the great wisdom traditions of the world talk about eternal destination, so by talking about how this world is a place of misery and how our innate longing for happiness and eternal life is fulfilled elsewhere we can encourage people to redirect their efforts for happiness from this world to Krishna’s eternal world, thank you, Hare Krishna