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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Sri Isopanisad Lectures</h3>
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To live in the forest is in the mode of goodness, and to live in the city, or town, is in the mode of passion, and to live in slaughterhouse and brothel and drunkards, these are the residential quarter in ignorance. And to live in the temple is transcendental, above goodness, pure goodness.
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Prabhupāda: Open the page. Read.

Gargamuni: Page eighteen. 

Prabhupāda: Read.

Gargamuni: Page eighteen. "The root of sin is deliberate disobedience to the laws of nature through not recognizing the proprietorship of the Lord; disobedience to the laws of nature, or disobedience to the order of the Lord, brings ruin to the human being. On the other hand, if one is sober and knows the laws of nature, without being influenced by unnecessary attachment or abhorrence, he is sure to be recognized again by the Lord and thus become eligible for going back to Godhead, back to the eternal home." ([[Vanisource:ISO 1 (1974)|Īśo mantra 1]])

Prabhupāda: Hmm. So the natural law, without being influenced by unnecessary attachment or abhorrence. There is no need of attachment for this material world, neither there is need of abhorrence. That is ''īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam'' ([[Vanisource:ISO 1 (1974)|Īśo mantra 1]]). 

Suppose we are sitting in this temple. So, of course, for temple we should have attachment. Ordinary home, or ordinary house . . . temple . . . we must explain. The temple is transcendental. According to Vedic civilization, to live in the forest is residential quarter in goodness, to live in the forest. Therefore, formerly, great sages and saintly persons, they used to go to the forest and live there. And the government would give them protection. 

The king's duty was to supply them food. What sort of food? The king used to give them in charity cows, nice cows. So they would take little milk, and whatever fruits are available in the forest, that was sufficient for them. And the king would sometimes hunt ferocious animals so that they may not disturb. But actually, they do not disturb saintly persons still. 

So to live in the forest is in the mode of goodness, and to live in the city, or town, is . . . is in the mode of passion, and to live in slaughterhouse and brothel and drunkards, these are the residential quarter in ignorance. And to live in the temple is transcendental, above goodness: pure goodness. 

In the material world goodness is sometimes mixed up with ignorance and passion, but in the spiritual world there is pure goodness—no contamination or tinges of passion and ignorance. Therefore it is called ''śuddha-sattva. Śuddha-sattva. Śabdam, sattvaṁ viśuddhaṁ vasudeva-śabditam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 4.3.23|SB 4.3.23]]): "That pure goodness is called ''vasudeva'', and in that pure goodness one can realize God." Therefore God's name is Vāsudeva, "produced from Vasudeva." Vasudeva is the father of Vāsudeva.
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