A fully surrendered soul needs never fear maintenance; God sustains all who truly depend on Him alone.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.5 — March 5, 1975, New York 750305SB-NEW YORK [71:26 Minutes] SB-02.02.05_750305SB-NEW YORK [kīrtana]
Prabhupāda: [prema-dvani] [18:30] [Prabhupāda sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [24:56] Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 2nd Canto, 2nd Chapter, 5th verse.
[leads chanting of verse, etc.] cīrāṇi kiṁ pathi na santi diśanti bhikṣāṁ naivāṅghripāḥ para-bhṛtaḥ sarito 'py aśuṣyan ruddhā guhāḥ kim ajito 'vati nopasannān kasmād bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadāndhān [SB 2.2.5] [break] [30:13] "Are there no torn clothes lying on the common road? Do the trees which exist for maintaining others no longer give alms in charity? Do the rivers, being dried up, no longer supply water to the thirsty? Are the caves of the mountains now closed?
Or, above all, does the Almighty Lord not protect the fully surrendered souls? Why then do the learned sages go to flatter those who are intoxicated by hard-earned wealth?" [break]
Prabhupāda: cīrāṇi kiṁ pathi na santi diśanti bhikṣāṁ naivāṅghripāḥ para-bhṛtaḥ sarito 'py aśuṣyan ruddhā guhāḥ kim ajito 'vati nopasannān kasmād bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadāndhān [SB 2.2.5] So Śukadeva Gosvāmī was in renounced order of life from the very beginning of his life. As soon as he came out of the womb of his mother he immediately left home. He was within the womb of his mother for sixteen years. So he was in favor of renounced order of life, Śukadeva Gosvāmī.
There was no question of his following the other āśramas. Generally, for ordinary man, there are four āśramas..., eight āśramas. For social upkeep there are four āśramas, namely brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha, sannyāsa. This is for spiritual.
And for social, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra. This is social division. And there is spiritual division also, because we are combination of matter and spirit. I am the soul.