Those attached to material desires and household life are Yamaraja's candidates; only Krishna consciousness liberates the soul from his punishment.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Devotee: [indistinct] Prabhupāda: tān ānayadhvam asato vimukhān mukundapādāravinda-makaranda-rasād ajasram niṣkiñcanaiḥ paramahaṁsa-kulair asaṅgair juṣṭād gṛhe niraya-vartmani baddha-tṛṣṇān [SB 6.3.28] [Paramahaṁsas are exalted persons who have no taste for material enjoyment and who drink the honey of the Lord's lotus feet. My dear servants, bring to me for punishment only persons who are averse to the taste of that honey, who do not associate with paramahaṁsas and who are attached to family life and worldly enjoyment, which form the path to hell.] So this topic between Yamarāja and his assistants. Sometimes the atheist class of men, they think these are stories. "Where is Yamarāja?
Where is his place? How he is talking? These are all made into stories." But that is not the actual fact. Śukadeva Gosvāmī is reciting, repeating the words of Yamarāja and accepted by great ācāryas like Śrīdhara Svāmī, Jīva Gosvāmī, so does it mean, even Caitanya Mahāprabhu, does it mean that all these great ācāryas they indulged in some stories? No, that's not, it is fact but because you do not know what is the actual position therefore it is our misconception that these topics are stories made by some fictitious man.
Therefore they interpret in a different way—but actually that is not the fact. Just like the leader of the atheist class of men is Cārvāka Muni, Cārvāka, he has got a philosophy, atheistic philosophy—Cārvāka Muni. So he says that: bhasmī-bhūtasya dehasya kutaḥ punar āgamano bhavet ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet yāvaj jīvet sukhaṁ jīvet [Now why you are worrying about next life? As soon as this body is burned into ashes, everything is finished.] He says, his philosophy—hedonism, "That so long you live, you live very happily." In India the standard of living happily is to eat more ghee, that is a luxury.
One who can eat more ghee, he is considered to be eating very luxurious foodstuff and actually that is a fact. So his theory is that, "You eat more ghee, as much as possible. Enjoy, eat more and sleep more and have sex life more and that is his philosophy—enjoy materially. "Eat, drink, be merry and enjoy." Then he says that, "Oh I have no sufficient money, how I shall purchase ghee?" Just like in some European philosophies: beg, borrow or steal.
For money either beg, take a profession of a sannyāsī and beg and take money and enjoy or if you can not do so then try to borrow and if that is not possible then steal. What can be done? Money is wanted. So similarly Cārvāka Muni also said that, "Live very happily and eat as much as you like—ghee." Then if you are, "I have no sufficient money, if I borrow then I shall remain a debtor.
I shall be responsible." Because that's a fact according to karma, laws, if you take some money without proper utilization. You can not beg unless you spend it for Kṛṣṇa therefore only the sannyāsīs and the brāhmaṇas, they are allowed to beg, not all. The gṛhasthas—not allowed. The brahmacārīs they are also begging but that is on behalf of the spiritual master, not for his personal.
A brahmacārī whatever he collects he immediately submits to the spiritual master because he has dedicated his life for the service of the spiritual master so whatever he collects that is the property of the spiritual master. So in this way begging is allowed to the sannyāsīs, to the brāhmaṇas and to the brahmacārī on behalf of the spiritual master. Not gṛhasthas, they can not beg, this is not allowed. So he says that: ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet, "If you have no money then borrow money somewhere and purchase ghee and eat and live very happily." ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet/ yāvaj jīvet sukhaṁ jīvet. "So long you live, live very happily.