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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: Yato na
kaścit kva ca kutracid vā
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dīnaḥ svam ātmānam
alam samarthaḥ
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vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra-
krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ
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tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu
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upeta nārāyaṇam ādi-devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito ’pavargaḥ [?].
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So visargaḥ and apavargaḥ.
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Visargaḥ 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 visargaḥ.
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Visargaḥ means creation.
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We’ll have to accept another body.
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Unless you are completely
pure… Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam.
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Śūnyam means zero.
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Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam
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ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā [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 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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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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Yānti deva-vratā devān [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 śāstra, 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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ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar
āvartino ’rjuna… [Bg. 8.16].
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It is stated in the Bhagavad-
gītā, this is Svargaloka.
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And above that…
Bhūr, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ.
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You have got the Gāyatrī,
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oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur
vareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya [?].
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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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Catur-daśa-bhuvana.
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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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Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ
punar āvartino ’rjuna [Bg. 8.16].
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You have to come back again.
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Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja is very
serious that visargaḥ, stop this visargaḥ.
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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 daityas.
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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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Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ [?].
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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 daitya friends…”
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He was talking with his friends.
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They were born of daitya families.
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Daitya family means, daityeṣu
saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu.
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Daitya means those who are materially
attached, simply for sense gratification.
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They, that is the distinction
between the daityas and devas.
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The devas, 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 śāstra recommends:
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Akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ
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tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena yajeta puruṣaṁ param [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 śāstra 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 devatās.
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They have got facilities
for all sense gratification.
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Sense gratification means
udara-upastha-jihvā, jihvā,
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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 vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra-
krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ [?].
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Nigaḍo, nigaḍo means the root, the root
cause of accepting the material body.
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These things are
sense gratification.
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Tato vidūrāt, from distant place.
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Tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā [?].
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“My dear friends, although
you are born of daitya family,
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I am also born”—his
father is also daitya.
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Daityeṣu saṅgaṁ
viṣayātmakeṣu: “give up their…”
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Asat-saṅga-tyāga ei
vaiṣṇava ācāra [?]. 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,
asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava ācāra [?]:
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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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Asat eka ’strī-saṅgī [?]: “One who
is attached to woman, he is asat.”
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And kṛṣṇa-bhakta āra, “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
daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu:
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“Don’t associate with…” Asat-saṅga, the
same thing, as Caitanya Mahāprabhu…
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Asat-saṅga-tyāga ei
vaiṣṇava ācāra [?].
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This is Vaiṣṇava’s business.
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Don’t take any opportunity of asat,
those who are materially attached.
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It is very difficult association.
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Then it is possible upeta nārāyaṇam ādi-
devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito ’pavargaḥ [?].
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Therefore association is very,
sajjati siddhāśaye [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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