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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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We require this eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But if we try, if we practice, that is called austerity. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvaḥ (SB 5.5.1).
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[[Vanisource:760505 - Lecture SB 06.01.01 - Honolulu|760505 - Lecture SB 06.01.01 - Honolulu]]
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Asaṁsṛtiḥ means to stop the cycle of birth and death and go back to home, back to Godhead. Then, if you want to go back to home, back to Godhead, then you have to follow the nivṛtti-mārga. Pravrtti is there, my inclination is there, but if you practice nivṛtti-mārga, then you overcome the cycle of birth and death, saṁsṛtiḥ. So this human form of life is meant for nivṛtti-mārga, not to indulge the sense gratification but minimize sense gratification, as far as possible. Try to make it zero. Then that is called nivṛtti-mārga. We are . . . we require this eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But if we try, if we practice, that is called austerity. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). Śuddha. Śuddha means purification, existence, purifying the existence. We are eternal, we are existing, and on account of impurity we have got this material body, but it is subjected to the laws of material nature, and we have to change one after another. This is pravṛtti-mārga. But in the human form of life if we come to senses, that "Why I shall accept repetition of birth, death, old age, disease and so many miserable conditions?" then that is called sense. That is intelligence. That intelligence can be developed in human form of life, and if we do not do, then the same example: just you use the sandalwood for burning purpose.
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