Real human duty is not endless material striving but renunciation and service to saintly persons for God realization.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.1–2 — September 7, 1973, Stockholm 730907SB-STOCKHOLM [41:59 Minutes] SB-05.05.01–02_730907SB-STOCKHOLM Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] ṛṣabha uvāca nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam [SB 5.5.1] mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam mahāntas te sama-cittāḥ praśāntā vimanyavaḥ suhṛdaḥ sādhavo ye [SB 5.5.2] [break] [01:50]
Prabhupāda: So, uktam evāha ṛṣabhām iti. We are discussing about the instruction of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva to His sons. Tad uktam upayinona bhāgavata upāsanam upadeśa upadekṣamana vairāgyaṁ vinā upadeṣṭo 'pi bhakti-yoga na samyak pratitiṣṭhati tad utpadaye kāmān nindati nāyam etad dvayam. This is a note given by Bhiraghavācārya.
He belongs to the Rāmānuja-sampradāya. We have got four disciplic succession: Madhvācārya's sampradāya, or succession, Rāmānujācārya, Viṣṇu Svāmī and..., what is the other? Pradyumna: Nimbārka. Prabhupāda: So Bhiraghavācārya belongs to the Rāmānuja disciplic succession. He was a very famous man, ācārya. So he says that bhāgavata upāsanam upadekṣyamāna vairāgyaṁ vinā upadiṣṭo 'pi bhakti-yoga na samyak pratitiṣṭhati.
We may give instruction for many years, but unless one practices vairāgya, renunciation, vairāgya vinā... This bhakti-yoga, another name is vairāgya-yoga. That is pointed out by Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. When he offered his prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu he said, vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yogamśikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ sri-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-śarīra-dhārī kṛpāmbudhir yas tam ahaṁ prapadye [Cc. Madhya 6.254] He said that this Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the same Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa advised, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This sarva-dharmān includes all our material activities. So, but people could not understand.
The instruction is still standing. Kṛṣṇa said, sarva-dharmān parityajya, "Just simply surrender unto Me." But nobody is doing that. God says that "You surrender unto Me; I shall give you all protection." There is assurance. But we are so unfortunate that we cannot believe or cannot be assured on the words of God also.
We do not believe. "Oh, God cannot give us protection. Let me try my own technology. I shall protect myself." This is the world[?].
That means he's not detached with these material activities. Kṛṣṇa says also that "You give up." Just like we are also saying. There are so many proposals. They come, philanthropists: "People are starving. We have to see first of all." The Communists say, "Then we can discuss about spiritual...