Reservoir of All Pleasure
This has two meanings, one that everything to be enjoyed exists fully with God or second that God is the person to whom all pleasures belong, the bhakti saints approve of the latter meaning.
Ānanda-mayo ‘bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12).
The living entities, like the Lord, are full of consciousness, and they are after happiness. The Lord is perpetually happy, and if the living entities associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him and take part in His association, then they also become happy.
The universal principle of life is pleasure.
The example of the fish on land is very appropriate. If one takes a fish from the water and puts it on the land, it cannot be made happy by any amount of offered pleasure. The spirit soul can be happy only in the association of the supreme living being, the Personality of Godhead, and nowhere else.
The soul has a natural tendency to utilise intelligence and seek pleasure. We see so many literature, newspapers, magazines printing on the daily. However, most of them are not even read for more than an hour and are trashed to the bin. In spiritual literatures like Bhagvad Gita or Srimad Bhagavatam, we find people continuously reading it again and again since some past 5000 years ago. And the most fascinating aspect of it is that these transcendental literatures stay forever new and refreshing no matter how many times you read through them.
Material progress can be compared to a linear expression graph, just a straight line. Spiritual progress can be seen as a spiral, you read the same stories, the same teachings, however you now experience it differently due to your enhanced realisations, you keep going deeper and deeper in the text.
We see in material life, everyone wants to be the BOSS, CEO,CFO, HEAD, etc. In spiritual life, the highest position to seek for is to be the servant of the servant of the servant of God, Dasanudas.
When we seek that servant position, we intertwine with the natural interests of the spirit soul present in every living entity:
jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa [CC Madhya 20.108]
“It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa”
Thakur Bhaktivinoda writes in one song:
ātma-nivedana, tuwā pade kori’,
hoinu parama sukhī
duḥkha dūre gelo, cintā nā rohilo,
caudike ānanda dekhi
“I have become supremely joyful by surrendering myself at Your holy feet. Unhappiness has gone away, and there are no more anxieties. I see joy in all directions.”
Just like Krsna is the Reservoir of all Pleasure, Srimati Radharani is the Reservoir of all Love and Devotion. If we are sincere, we will receive the loving sidelong glance ( kṛpā-katākṣa ) of Srimati Radharani and all our efforts will be fruitful and krsna will be pleased, and in pleasing krsna, we are automatically satisfied.
