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So the stage of Śukadeva Gosvāmī is ātma-rati, self-satisfied, doesn't care for anything of the world. He is aloof from the world. We should not imitate Śukadeva Gosvāmī and become naked. (chuckles) Simply by . . . because there are many so-called mendicants in India, they, I mean to say, loiter in the street naked, and sometimes they are arrested by the police, like that. Imitation is not required.
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[[Vanisource:660527 - Lecture BG 03.17-20 - New York|660527 - Lecture BG 03.17-20 - New York]]
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Just like Śukadeva Gosvāmī. He was, as the other day we were narrating the story of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, he was passing on naked, sixteen-years-old boy, young boy, and very nice feature of the body, peaceful. And he was passing naked, and the girls who were taking bath naked on the river, they saw that innocent person, so they did not cover their body. But when the father was passing, such a learned sage, old man, Vyāsadeva, who is the author of all Vedic literature—he is not an ordinary man—but because he was a worldly man, a householder, the girls, after seeing him, covered their body. That story the other day we have narrated before you.

So the stage of Śukadeva Gosvāmī is ātma-rati, self-satisfied, doesn't care for anything of the world. He is aloof from the world. We should not imitate Śukadeva Gosvāmī and become naked. (chuckles) Simply by . . . because there are many so-called mendicants in India, they, I mean to say, loiter in the street naked, and sometimes they are arrested by the police, like that. Imitation is not required. Imitation is not required. But there is a stage like that. Just like a madman. Sometimes a madman, he also, I mean to say, wanders street naked. So he is also in . . . compact in some thought, but he is a madman. But similarly, a person who is completely compact in Kṛṣṇa thought, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is also a madman according to the calculation of this world.
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