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Animals Possess Superior Natural Expertise, Human Life Meant For Self-Realization

📅 April 28, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 12 min
True devotion to Krishna requires absolute detachment from material life, not comfortable householder arrangements within the temple.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: Niṣkiñcanasya. One who has decided that "This world is useless. I have to take birth repeatedly and accept different types of bodies and suffer..." Body means... Those who have understood this fact and disgusted, so bhakti line is for them.

One who has the tendency to enjoy this material world, and they are taking advantage of God, "Give me good wife, give me good work, good meal, good enjoyment," they are not in the bhakti line. They are in the very nascent stage. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Nescient stage? Prabhupāda: Lower stage. Vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yogam [Cc Madhya 6.254]. That...

There is one verse written by Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. What page I don't... Śikṣārtham. The bhakti-yoga, nija-bhakti-yoga... Bhakti-yoga means devotion to Kṛṣṇa.

And that is vairāgya-vidyā, how to learn, renounce this world. Otherwise why Caitanya Mahāprabhu gave up His gṛhastha life? He's the same person. Why Rūpa Gosvāmī gave up their ministership?

By their personal behavior they are showing this is not required. Hmm? This is vairāgya-vidyā. So under the circumstances, those who have no vairāgya, they cannot live in the temple.

They are taking advantage of the temple facilities for their sense enjoyment. Do you understand? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, I do. Prabhupāda: So that should be stopped. So to live with wife, together as a gṛhastha, and enjoy gṛhastha life, at the same time to live in temple, this should be discouraged.

Temple is meant for brahmacārī and sannyāsī, our, mainly, not for gṛhastha, because they have got inclination to enjoy. To live with wife means enjoyment. They'll have sex. This should be discouraged.

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