Those who are after . . . seeking after honey, they will find, "Here is something." You see? Don't make it a stool society. You see? Make it a honey society. At least, give chance, those who are seeking after honey. You see? Don't cheat people. So they will come.
So here Nārada Muni said that, "You have compiled so many books, that's all right. What is the idea? The idea is dharmādayaḥ. You are teaching religious principle." There are twenty viṁśati dharma-śāstrāḥ. This Manu-saṁhitā, Parāśara Muni's law, and social custom, this, that—so many things there are. These are originally by different sages, but Vyāsadeva made it . . . compiled it just for proper use. People can understand them.
So he has explained all these books for use of the human society undoubtedly: how to become religious, how to develop economic position, how to understand what is liberation, how to satisfy restrictedly sense gratification. Just like in books, in Vyāsadeva's books, you will find these different kinds of . . . just like those who are eating flesh. That is also given direction by Vyāsadeva, in the tāmasika-purāṇa, purāṇa for the persons who are in ignorance.
So he does not deny anybody. He has made books in such a way that any person reading books . . . just like in school there are different classes, and different books are recommended for different classes. Similarly, Vyāsadeva has given the whole Vedic literature in such a nice way in the form of Purāṇas that any man can be elevated to the highest position, reading books like this.
Take for example that one who is addicted to take intoxication, eating flesh, and sex life . . . because these are natural instincts. Loke vyavāyāmiṣa-madya-sevā nityā hi jantor na hi tatra codanā (SB 11.5.11). Nobody is required to give lesson, to teach. Nobody required to be taught how he has to make sexual intercourse. Nobody has to be taken, I mean, given lesson how he can become intoxicants. Don't you see that the intoxicants, intoxicated person, they have become automatically? There is no university. There is no educational system that, "You become . . . take LSD like this." No. That is a natural tendency. To become intoxicated, to take liquor, LSD, gāñjā, pān, oh, very easily you can learn. To use sex life . . .
Loke vyavāya . . . these, they are natural instincts. They can be . . . automatically they will be done. There is no question of . . . then what is the use of book? Book is for restricting. That they do not know. When Vyāsadeva recommends that you must have sex life by marriage, that means restriction. That means restriction. You cannot have sex life here and there unrestrictedly.
You have got one wife or one husband, and that is also restricted: only for begetting child you can have sex life. So many things. The whole idea is restriction. Not that, "Because I have got a wife it is a machine for sex life." No, no. A marriage mean . . . that does not mean. Marriage does not mean like that. It is restriction.
The whole Vedic civilization is to bring men to the transcendental platform by restricting all his nonsense habits to nil. But not all of a sudden. Gradually, according to the quality. Similarly, those who are addicted to flesh-eating, meat-eating, "All right." Vedic literature says: "All right. You can eat meat. But sacrifice an animal before the deity, Goddess Kālī, and you can eat." So that the man who is eating meat, he'll not revolt. If I say . . . just like many men revolts already. That girl? What is called?
Devotee: Mādhavī-latā.
Prabhupāda: Mādhavī-latā, she revolted. She revolted. She was always trying to plead, "Why this restriction? Why this restriction?" So I had to tell, "If you don't like the restriction, then go away. You don't associate with us." What can be done?
So they do not want restriction. That is natural tendency. But these śāstras are meant for restriction. Just like marriage is restriction of sex life. And offering sacrifice before Goddess Kālī, that is also a restriction of meat-eating. You cannot eat meat by purchasing from the slaughterhouse.
Oh, that is not recommended. If you want to eat meat, then you just sacrifice one goat. Not, I mean to say, cows. No. Goat. Any useless animal. "All right. You take." Goat is recommended to be sacrificed. So you can take. And in India the meat-eating or flesh-eating is not restricted. But not the useful animal, cow, the most useful animal, the cow.
So these books, these literatures, I mean to say, Vedic literatures, are meant for restricting our life and elevating ourself. So Nārada says that "You have explained all these religious principles, or sense gratification, economic development, very nicely.
(break) . . . na tathā vāsudevasya mahimā hy anuvarṇitaḥ. So therefore our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is simply for glorifying the Lord. That is the only business. Not . . . other things are secondary. That is being taught. So if you want to write books, you write books by glorifying the Lord.
Na yad vacaś citra-padaṁ harer yaśaḥ . . . (SB 1.5.10). Nārada says, citra-padam api . . . vāsudeva-vyatiriktānya-viṣaya-jñānavād evānya-viṣayaṁ vāk-cāturyam. Śrīdhara Svāmī, he comments (chuckles) that except describing the glories of the Lord, any literature, any science, any contribution is simply a jugglery of vocabulary. That's all. Jugglery. Vāk-cāturyam. Vāk means vocabulary, and cāturya means jugglery. Simply setting some words in a jugglery way just to draw people's attention to waste time, that's all. Vāk-cāturyam. Vāsudeva-vyatiriktānya-viṣaya-jñānavād evānya-viṣayaṁ vāk-cāturyaṁ (ca) khilam, khilam eva ity aha, khilam. It is insignificant.