True love exists only for Krishna; material desires are mere lust masquerading as affection in the illusion of the material world.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.1–3 — May 22, 1972, Los Angeles 720522SB-LOS ANGELES [37:39 Minutes] SB-02.03.01–03_720522SB-LOS ANGELES Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verses] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] śrī-śuka uvāca evam etan nigaditaṁ pṛṣṭavān yad bhavān mama nṛṇāṁ yan mriyamāṇānāṁ manuṣyeṣu manīṣiṇām [SB 2.3.1] brahma-varcasa-kāmas tu yajeta brahmaṇaḥ patim indram indriya-kāmas tu prajā-kāmaḥ prajāpatīn [SB 2.3.2] devīṁ māyāṁ tu śrī-kāmas tejas-kāmo vibhāvasum vasu-kāmo vasūn rudrān vīrya-kāmo 'tha vīryavān [SB 2.3.3] Prabhupāda: One more.
[Pradyumna chants verse again] So, anyone, chant. [Hṛdayānanda leads chanting] Thank you. Next? [more devotees chant] Any [indistinct] girls?
[devotee leads chanting] Very good. Next? [other devotees lead, with Prabhupāda correcting chanting] That's all. [break] [06:51] So in this way, if you chant ten times, you'll get it better.
It is not difficult. So we are giving this diacritic mark, English transliteration, only for this purpose—so that you can chant, you can vibrate these mantras. So practice. Here you hear, and in your leisure time, you practice.
If you chant these mantras anywhere, you'll be honored. Sanskrit language is so nice. And direction, everything is there: purport, word meaning and translation. So we are taking so much trouble in writing book, and not for simply making market. It is for you to read it.
Not that simply you go and sell books, and the..., if the customer says, "You read it first of all," then what you will say? You'll say, "No, I cannot read. I can sell only." [laughter] [laughs] Then what will be your position if you say like that, that "I can sell; I cannot read"? Anyway. Then?
Word meaning? Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms] devīm—the goddess; māyām—unto the mistress of the material world; tu—but; śrī-kāmaḥ—one who desires beauty; tejaḥ—power; kāmaḥ—one who so desires; vibhāvasum—the fire-god; vasu-kāmaḥ—one who wants wealth; vasūn—the Vasu demigods; rudrān—the Rudra expansion of Lord Śiva; vīrya-kāmaḥ—one who wants to be very strongly built; atha—therefore; vīryavān—the most powerful. [break] [09:32] Prabhupāda: So these are kāma, these material desires. Somebody is wanting wealth, somebody is wanting beauty, somebody is wanting strength, somebody something else. All these are..., the beginning from brahma-varcasa-kāmas tu.