Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.17.54

ittham parimriśan mukto

griheshv atithi-vad vasan

na grihair anubadhyeta

nirmamo nirahańkritah

SYNONYMS

ittham — thus; parimriśan — deeply considering; muktah — a liberated soul; griheshu — at home; atithi-vat — just like a guest; vasan — living; na — not; grihaih — by the domestic situation; anubadhyeta — should become bound; nirmamah — without any sense of personal proprietorship; nirahańkritah — without false ego.

TRANSLATION

Deeply considering the actual situation, a liberated soul should live at home just like a guest, without any sense of proprietorship or false ego. In this way he will not be bound or entangled by domestic affairs.

PURPORT

The word mukta, or "liberated," refers to one freed from all material attachment. In this status, called mukta-sańga, one no longer identifies oneself as a permanent resident of the material world. This liberated status may be attained even by one situated in family life. The only requirement is that one should take up a serious program of krishna-sańkīrtana, which includes constant chanting of the holy names of the Lord, worship of the Deity and participation in the Krishna consciousness movement. Without a serious program of krishna-sańkīrtana it is very difficult to give up the iron shackles of attachment to women and the byproducts of such attachment.

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