Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.26

Sex Desire Binds Souls to Material World, Death Arrives Before Family Plans Settle

📅 May 26, 1976 📍 Honolulu ⏱ 27 min
Sex desire is the root cause of material bondage; civilization means progressively restraining it, not indulging it.
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Prabhupāda: So, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Sixth Canto, First Chapter, text number twenty-six. [leads devotees in chanting] bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho na vedāgatam antakam [SB 6.1.26] [01:31] So this is the general way of life. Everyone is engaged in these material activities, and the basic principle of material activity is gṛhastha, family life. Family life, according to Vedic system, or anywhere, is responsible life to maintain the wife, children. Everyone is engaged.

They think this is the only duty. "To maintain the family, that is my duty. As comfortably as possible. That is my duty." One does not think that this kind of duty is performed even by animals.

They have got also children, and they feed. So what is the difference? Therefore here the word used is mūḍha. Mūḍha means ass.

One who is engaged in such duties, bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan. Prapiban. Prapiban means drinking, and bhuñjānaḥ means eating. While eating, while drinking, khādan, while chewing.

Carvya cūṣya lehya peya. There are four kinds of eatables. Sometimes we chew, sometimes we lick up, carvya cūṣya, lehya, sometimes we swallow, and sometimes we drink. So there are four kinds of foodstuff.

Therefore we sing catuḥ vidha śrī-bhagavat-prasādāt. Catuḥ vidha means four kinds. So we offer to the Deity so many foodstuffs within these four categories: something is chewed, something is licked up, something is swallowed. In that way. So bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ.

The father-mother takes care of the children, how to give them foodstuffs. We have seen Mother Yaśodā is feeding Kṛṣṇa. Same thing. This is the difference.

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