So anyway, all of them, the first-class mahatma and all these people, they are transcendentalists. They are trying to realize the Absolute Truth. Maybe in different grades, but they are trying.
And besides that, besides them, there is another class who are, more or less can be called, not transcendentalists but materialists. And who are they? That is described here.
trai-vidya mam soma-pah puta-papa
yajnair istva svargatim prarthayante
te punyam asadya surendra-lokam
asnanti divyan divi deva-bhogan
Deva-bhogan means this is with reference to the standard of living. As in this world we have got different standards of living and it may be that your standard of living in America or Europe may be, from a material point of view, very high and the standard of living in another country may be lower… Different standards of living there are. But in other planets also, there are different standards of living.
They are called deva-bhogan.
That standard of living we cannot imagine here, in the moon planet and other, surendra-lokam. Surendra-lokam means where the demigods live. They are also human beings, but they are highly intellectual, and their duration of life is very long, and their standard of living is very high, most costly. We cannot imagine even.
This is a section of the book “Brilliant As the Sun”(English).
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