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So there are many descriptions in many sastras that one should avoid asadhu and try to associate with sadhu. Then his life will be successful

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So there are many descriptions in many śāstras that one should avoid asādhu and try to associate with sādhu. Then his life will be successful. Because human life is meant for spiritual advancement of life, not for advancement of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. That is cats' and dogs' life. Human life means advancement in spiritual life. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam (SB 5.5.1). We have to purify our existence.

The sannyāsa-āśrama, gṛhastha-āśrama, vānaprastha-āśrama—everything is āśrama. We can understand, as soon as this word is used, āśrama, it means there is some spiritual tint or spiritual life. So gṛhastha, that is also spiritual life. One may live with wife and children and execute spiritual life. All the associates of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they were all gṛhasthas.

Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself also was gṛhastha. So to become gṛhastha is not a disqualification. But to live as a gṛhastha according to the injunction of the śāstras, that is required. That, Kṛṣṇa says: dharmāviruddhaḥ kāma, "Which is not against religious principle, that sort of lust I am."

So when Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, asat eka strī-saṅgī, that means one who is not satisfied his, I mean to say, religious life with wife. That, that kind . . . he's asādhu. He's asādhu. Kṛṣṇa . . . strī-saṅgī and kṛṣṇa-abhakta. He summarizes the description of asādhu in two words, one who is too much addicted to sense enjoyment and one who not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he's asādhu. So Kṛṣṇa has also describe that:

na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ
prapadyante narādhamāḥ
māyayāpahṛta-jñānā
āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ
(BG 7.15)

So there are many descriptions in many śāstras that one should avoid asādhu and try to associate with sādhu. Then his life will be successful. Because human life is meant for spiritual advancement of life, not for advancement of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. That is cats' and dogs' life. Human life means advancement in spiritual life. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam (SB 5.5.1). We have to purify our existence.

That people do not know, what is impure existence and pure existence. They do not know. There is no education, there is no science. The . . . because we do not, do not understand that we are living entities, we are part and parcel of God. God is eternal, so I am also eternal.

God is always fresh; I am also fresh. Nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṁ purāṇaḥ. Although Kṛṣṇa is the oldest person . . . Kṛṣṇa is ādi-puruṣa. He must be the oldest. But He . . . nava-yauvanaṁ ca. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanam ca (Bs. 5.33). This is Kṛṣṇa's feature. He is the ādi-puruṣa, the oldest.

Page Title:So there are many descriptions in many sastras that one should avoid asadhu and try to associate with sadhu. Then his life will be successful
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-11-04, 06:42:31
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1