Bad association ruins even the virtuous; good association with Krishna consciousness alone can restore the fallen soul.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.66 — September 2, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750902SB-VRNDAVAN [25:09 Minutes] SB-06.01.66_750902SB-VRNDAVAN Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number 66.
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Prabhupāda: atas tataś copaninye nyāyato 'nyāyato dhanaṁ babhārāsyāḥ kuṭumbinyāḥ kuṭumbaṁ manda-dhīr ayam [SB 6.1.66] yatas tataś copaninye nyāyato 'nyāyato dhanaṁ babhārāsyāḥ kuṭumbinyāḥ kuṭumbaṁ manda-dhīr ayam [SB 6.1.66] So this is the beginning of saṁsāra. So there is attraction between man and woman, and as soon as the attraction becomes little intimate, they unite. Then they have children. Then they require money, apartment, so many things.
This man became sinful. He gave up his real wife, married wife, coming from very good family, but he became attracted with that śūdrāṇī, fourth class. Śūdra means fourth class, worker class. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra. So śūdra women, they are not chaste.
Some of them are practically professional prostitute. But that is not in higher caste family—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya. But at the present moment it is very difficult to distinguish who is brāhmaṇa and who is śūdra. But formerly this is the system of Vedic civilization—ideal character, ideal behavior of the brāhmaṇa; less, little less, kṣatriya; little less, vaiśya; and less than the vaiśya, the śūdra; and less than the śūdras are called caṇḍālas.
First class, second class, third class, fourth class and then fifth class. So this man, being attracted with the śūdrāṇī, naturally there was children. So he began to maintain them. This is natural affection. Even cats and dogs, they maintain their children.
The birds also, they maintain their kiddies. So although children were born of śūdrāṇī, natural there was affection. So he required money. But he became sinful; he could not earn money honestly.