Hypocrisy blocks Krishna consciousness; sincere engagement in any ashrama surpasses false renunciation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
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Prabhupāda: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto Six, Chapter One, verse number 23. [leads devotees in chanting] [02:19] evaṁ nivasatas tasya lālayānasya tat-sutān kālo 'tyagān mahān rājann aṣṭāśītyāyuṣaḥ samāḥ [SB 6.1.23] So in this way the Ajāmila, he practiced this unfair way of livelihood. Bandy-akṣaiḥ kaitavaiś cauryair garhitāṁ vṛttim āsthitaḥ [SB 6.1.22]. So vṛtti means livelihood.
If one adopts abominable livelihood, there is no, I mean to say, hope of spiritual advancement. Finished, because... We have learned from Bhagavad-gītā. Arjuna says Kṛṣṇa, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān [Bg 10.12]: "Kṛṣṇa, You are the Supreme Brahman," param dhāma, "the supreme resort of everything, and" pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān, "and the supreme pure." So nobody can approach Kṛṣṇa if he's impure.
That is not possible. In the Bhagavad-gītā still it is said, yeṣāṁ tu anta-gataṁ pāpam: "One who is free from all contamination of sinful activities," yeṣāṁ anta-gataṁ pāpam janānām puṇya-karmaṇām, "simply engaged in pious activities only," te, "such persons," dvanda-moha-nirmuktā, "without any doubt and duality," bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ, "with fixed-up mind, he can become Kṛṣṇa conscious." [Bg 7.28] So this Ajāmila, he learned all this nonsense, abominable way of livelihood. And therefore his example is given, how he was downtrodden and fallen. Still, by the grace of Nārāyaṇa, how he was elevated, that is the itihāsa, history, which is..., Sūta Gosvāmī is citing, how Kṛṣṇa consciousness is powerful.
That is the motive of narrating Ajāmila uddhāra, delivering Ajāmila. So here it is said, evaṁ nivasatas tasya lālayānasya tat-sutān. Everyone is tat-sutān, his children. Even one big economic, economist professor, Professor Marshall, he says...
I was student of economics, the Marshall book. He says that economic development begins out of family affection. Family affection. That is the basis.
That was his understanding, that nobody would work for livelihood unless he is attached in family. That is his proposition. So here he was attached to the family. Lālayānasya tat-sutān.