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SB 7-06-17 NV 1976-07-01 Material Entrapment

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ANNOUNCER: Next is a class, on
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 7th canto,

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6th chapter, text number 17-18,

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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,

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recorded on July 1st, 1976, at the
New Vrindavan Farm Community.

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PRADYUMNA: [leads
chanting, etc.] “Translation:

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My dear friends, O
sons of the demons,

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it is certain that no one
bereft of knowledge

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of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead

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has been able to liberate himself

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from material bondage at
any time or in any country.

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Rather, those bereft of knowledge of
the Lord are bound by the material laws.

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They are factually addicted to sense
gratification, and their target is women.

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Indeed, they are actually playthings
in the hands of attractive women.

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Victimized by such a conception of life,
they become surrounded by children,

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grandchildren and
great-grandchildren,

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and thus they are shackled
to material bondage.

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Those who are very much addicted to
this conception of life are called demons.

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Therefore, although you
are sons of demons,

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keep aloof from such persons

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and take shelter of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead,

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Nārāyaṇa, the origin
of all demigods,

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because the ultimate goal
for the devotees of Nārāyaṇa

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is liberation from the bondage
of material existence.”

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PRABHUPĀDA: <I>Yato na
kaścit kva ca kutracid vā</I>

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<I>dīnaḥ svam ātmānam
alam samarthaḥ</I>

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<I>vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra-
krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ</I>

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<I>tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu</I>

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<I>upeta nārāyaṇam ādi-devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito ’pavargaḥ</I> [?].

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So <I>visargaḥ</I> and <I>apavargaḥ</I>.

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<I>Visargaḥ</I> means creation.

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So the important fact is that if we
are attached to the material world,

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maybe very minute quantity,
then there will be <I>visargaḥ</I>.

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<I>Visargaḥ</I> means creation.

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We’ll have to accept another body.

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Unless you are completely
pure… <I>Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam</I>.

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<I>Śūnyam</I> means zero.

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<I>Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam</I>

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<I>ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā</I> [BRS 1.1.11].

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So the back to home back
to Godhead, we are trying.

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That is our ambition.

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But if we have got a little propensity
for material enjoyment, then…

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We may get very better position in
the material world, in the Svargaloka,

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heavenly planet.

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The description of heavenly planet is
given also in the <I>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</I>.

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Very, very opulent, we cannot
imagine even how they are opulent.

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The roads are made of pearls, diamonds,
coral, the roads are made of like that.

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And at the same time, no
sinful man is admitted there.

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Everyone highly elevated,
pious, there is no crookedness.

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There is no enviousness.

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So many… You’ll find this description
in the Eighth Canto, of Svargaloka.

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There are… Everything
we cannot imagine even.

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But that is also within
this material world.

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Within this material world.

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<I>Yānti deva-vratā devān</I> [Bg. 9.25].

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We can go there if we want to go.

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Just like they are trying, the
modern so-called scientist,

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to go to the moon planet, Mars.

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According to <I>śāstra</I>, these planets are
bedecked with such descriptive facilities.

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They are also within
the heavenly planets.

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But these rascals are going,
and they find nobody there,

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and they take some
dust and come back.

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This is their success.

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They do not know that they
cannot enter even there.

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They are not meant
for ordinary persons.

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At least those who are sinless,
very straightforward, not envious.

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So anyway, even if we go,

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<i>ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar
āvartino ’rjuna…</I> [Bg. 8.16].

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It is stated in the <I>Bhagavad-
gītā</I>, this is Svargaloka.

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And above that…
<I>Bhūr</I>, <i>bhuvaḥ</I>, <i>svaḥ</I>.

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You have got the <I>Gāyatrī</I>,

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<i>oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur
vareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya</I> [?].

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There are other higher planets also:
Svargaloka, Janaloka, Tapoloka,

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Maharloka, Satyaloka, Brahmaloka.

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There are fourteen status of
different planetary systems.

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<I>Catur-daśa-bhuvana</I>.

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And the topmost
is the Brahmaloka.

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So even if you go
there, there is no relief.

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<I>Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ
punar āvartino ’rjuna</I> [Bg. 8.16].

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You have to come back again.

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Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja is very
serious that <I>visargaḥ</I>, stop this <I>visargaḥ</I>.

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Go back, directly to Kṛṣṇa.

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Don’t go even in this, any planetary
system within this material world.

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We have got description
of this planetary system,

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but there is also fight between
the demons and the <I>daityas</I>.

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There is also not peace.

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There is struggle for existence.

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Sometimes one party is
gaining above another party,

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and sometimes one’s kingdom
is attacked by another party,

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the demons attacking
demigod’s cities.

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They are attacking.

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The struggle for existence
you’ll find everywhere.

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<I>Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ</I> [?].

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Therefore a devotee is not interested
anywhere within this material world,

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however very opulent it may be.

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There may be roads and instead
of the stone—diamonds, coral.

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That does not attract.

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They are not interested.

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They are interested to go to
Vṛndāvana and become a grass there.

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This is devotee.

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Just like Uddhava, as soon
as he entered Vṛndāvana,

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he immediately fell
down on the road

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thinking that “On this
street Kṛṣṇa has walked,

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His friends have walked,
there are footprints.”

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So this is the ambition
of a devotee.

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They are not interested for
diamond roads or pearl roads. No.

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So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that
“If you, my dear <I>daitya</I> friends…”

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He was talking with his friends.

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They were born of <I>daitya</I> families.

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<I>Daitya</I> family means, <i>daityeṣu
saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu</I>.

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<I>Daitya</I> means those who are materially
attached, simply for sense gratification.

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They, that is the distinction
between the <I>daityas</I> and <I>devas</I>.

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The <I>devas</I>, they are also
in sense gratification,

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but they are devotees
at the same time.

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Not pure devotees.

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Their devotion is for
material opulence.

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They want something, return.

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Kṛṣṇa is also prepared.
Kṛṣṇa takes sides of them.

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So if you want to
enjoy material world,

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that also you can get by becoming Kṛṣṇa
conscious, Kṛṣṇa is so pleased, so kind.

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Therefore <I>śāstra</I> recommends:

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<I>Akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ</I>

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<I>tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena yajeta puruṣaṁ param</I> [Bhāg. 2.3.10].

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Even if you have got desire to
enjoy within this material world,

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still you take to
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

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Kṛṣṇa will satisfy you.

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He’ll give you.

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There is no need of doing something
else for your material enjoyment.

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If you want… Because we can
not give up material enjoyment.

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We have been habituated since time
immemorial, many life after many life,

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simply for sense gratification.

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It is not very easy
to give up the idea.

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Therefore <I>śāstra</I> says even if you
have got idea of sense gratification,

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still you take to
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

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Don’t try it otherwise.

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Just like the <I>devatās</I>.

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They have got facilities
for all sense gratification.

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Sense gratification means
<I>udara-upastha-jihvā</I>, <i>jihvā</I>,

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this tongue and the
belly and the genitals.

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This is the prime sense
gratificatory sources.

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Very palatable dishes, fill up the belly as
much as possible, and then enjoy sex.

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This is material.

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In the spiritual world
these things are absent.

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In the material world these
things are very prominent.

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So Prahlāda Mahārāja
warns his friends

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that if we become attached
to this sense gratification,

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then <I>vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra-
krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ</I> [?].

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<I>Nigaḍo</I>, <i>nigaḍo</I> means the root, the root
cause of accepting the material body.

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These things are
sense gratification.

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<I>Tato vidūrāt</I>, from distant place.

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<I>Tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā</I> [?].

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“My dear friends, although
you are born of <I>daitya</I> family,

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I am also born”—his
father is also <I>daitya</I>.

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<I>Daityeṣu saṅgaṁ
viṣayātmakeṣu</I>: “give up their…”

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<I>Asat-saṅga-tyāga ei
vaiṣṇava ācāra</I> [?]. The same thing.

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Caitanya Mahāprabhu also said.

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Who is a Vaiṣṇava?

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Vaiṣṇava, He immediately explained, that
Vaiṣṇava, what is the duty of Vaiṣṇava?

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Some devotee asked
Caitanya Mahāprabhu,

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“Sir, what is the
duty of a Vaiṣṇava?”

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So He immediately replied in two lines,
<i>asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava ācāra</I> [?]:

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“To give up the company
of materialistic persons.”

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Then the next question may
be “Who is materialistic?”

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<I>Asat eka ’strī-saṅgī</I> [?]: “One who
is attached to woman, he is <I>asat</I>.”

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And <I>kṛṣṇa-bhakta āra</I>, “And one
who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.”

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So we have to give up.

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So there is therefore
regulative principle.

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At least, no illicit sex.

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Get yourself married,
live like a gentleman,

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take responsibility, then gradually
you’ll be able to give up this sex desire.

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Unless we give up this sex
desire, completely unagitated,

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there is no possibility of stopping
this repetition of material birth—birth,

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death, old age and disease.
That is not possible.

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Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja advises
<I>daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu</I>:

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“Don’t associate with…” <I>Asat-saṅga</I>, the
same thing, as Caitanya Mahāprabhu…

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<I>Asat-saṅga-tyāga ei
vaiṣṇava ācāra</I> [?].

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This is Vaiṣṇava’s business.

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Don’t take any opportunity of <I>asat</I>,
those who are materially attached.

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It is very difficult association.

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Then it is possible <I>upeta nārāyaṇam ādi-
devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito ’pavargaḥ</I> [?].

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Therefore association is very,
<i>sajjati siddhāśaye</I> [indistinct].

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Those who are engaged in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness, devotional service,

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make your association with them. [splice]

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Kṛṣṇa consciousness means fully become
detached with this material enjoyment,

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simply become engaged
in Kṛṣṇa’s service.

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Your life will be successful.

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Thank you very much [end]

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