Real spiritual advancement requires genuine sadhana and preaching, not superficial austerities or material arrangements.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[kīrtana in background] Bhāgavata: It was written in the paper that one nāga, he has died from cold. He was wearing nothing. [laughs] He has died.
Prabhupāda: In Māgha-melā, er, Kumbha-melā? Bhāgavata: At Kumbha-melā, yes. One nāga. He died due to cold.
It became very cold one night after you left, so cold that the nāga, he died from having no cloth.
Prabhupāda: He must die. They imitate. Bhāgavata: Yes. He is a cheater.
Prabhupāda: No sādhana, bhajana, and simply nāga.
Hari-śauri: Well, they smoke chillums, so they're so intoxicated that they don't...
Gurukṛpa: I saw one nāga. They said he was smoking a cigarette for twelve years. Not a chain smoker, "cable smoker." Prabhupāda: Markaṭa-vairāgya, the renunciation of a monkey. [laughter] Bhāgavata: You have explained in Fifth Canto.