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| Canto 3: The Status Quo | Chapter 30: Description by Lord Kapila of Adverse Fruitive Activities |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 3.30.7
esam udvahanadhina
karoty aviratam mudho
SYNONYMS
sandahyamana -- burning; sarva -- all; angah -- his limbs; esam -- these family members; udvahana -- for maintaining; adhina -- with anxiety; karoti -- he performs; aviratam -- always; mudhah -- the fool; duritani -- sinful activities; durasayah -- evil-minded.
TRANSLATION
Although he is always burning with anxiety, such a fool always performs all kinds of mischievous activities, with a hope which is never to be fulfilled, in order to maintain his so-called family and society.
PURPORT
It is said that it is easier to maintain a great empire than to maintain a small family, especially in these days, when the influence of Kali-yuga is so strong that everyone is harassed and full of anxieties because of accepting the false presentation of maya's family. The family we maintain is created by maya; it is the perverted reflection of the family in Krsnaloka. In Krsnaloka there are also family, friends, society, father and mother; everything is there, but they are eternal. Here, as we change bodies, our family relationships also change. Sometimes we are in a family of human beings, sometimes in a family of demigods, sometimes a family of cats, or sometimes a family of dogs. Family, society and friendship are flickering, and so they are called asat. It is said that as long as we are attached to this asat, temporary, nonexisting society and family, we are always full of anxieties. The materialists do not know that the family, society and friendship here in this material world are only shadows, and thus they become attached. Naturally their hearts are always burning, but in spite of all inconvenience, they still work to maintain such false families because they have no information of the real family association with Krsna.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness