The residents of Mithila, the residents of Ayodhya and all great devotees of the Lord, they are constantly in transcendental bliss because their only pleasure is in seeing the pleasure of Ram. The perfection of life is to forget ‘what do I like? what do I want? what do I need?’ and to simply think in terms of ‘what will please Rama.’ To the extent we give up our own selfish interests in life and make our only pleasure pleasing Krishna, to that extent we become transcendental to all the miseries of this world. This is bhakti. Understand the residents of Ayodhya and Mithila, they were not jnanis, they were not yogis, they were ordinary people. They had jobs, they were merchants, they were politicians, they were warriors, they were housewives but they were the most fortunate and the most highly spiritually advanced. Why? Because their only pleasure in life was giving pleasure to Sita and Rama. The real message that we would like for everyone to understand is ‘what is really a value in our life?’ To put aside all things that we consider valuable and strive for those things that Rama feels is valuable.
