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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.28
tān ānayadhvam asato vimukhān mukunda-
pādāravinda-makaranda-rasād ajasram
nishkiñcanaih paramahamsa-kulair asańgair
jushtād grihe niraya-vartmani baddha-trishnān
SYNONYMS
tān — them; ānayadhvam — bring before me; asatah — nondevotees (those who have not taken to Krishna consciousness); vimukhān — who have turned against; mukunda — of Mukunda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pāda-aravinda — of the lotus feet; makaranda — of the honey; rasāt — the taste; ajasram — continuously; nishkiñcanaih — by persons completely free from material attachment; paramahamsa-kulaih — by the paramahamsas, the most exalted personalities; asańgaih — who have no material attachment; jushtāt — which is enjoyed; grihe — to household life; niraya-vartmani — the path leading to hell; baddha-trishnān — whose desires are bound.
TRANSLATION
Paramahamsas are exalted persons who have no taste for material enjoyment and who drink the honey of the Lord's lotus feet. My dear servants, bring to me for punishment only persons who are averse to the taste of that honey, who do not associate with paramahamsas and who are attached to family life and worldly enjoyment, which form the path to hell.
PURPORT
After warning the Yamadūtas not to approach the devotees, Yamarāja now indicates who is to be brought before him. He specifically advises the Yamadūtas to bring him the materialistic persons who are attached to household life merely for sex. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, yan maithunādi-grihamedhi-sukham hi tuccham: [SB 7.9.45] people are attached to household life for sex only. They are always harassed in many ways by their material engagements, and their only happiness is that after working very hard all day, at night they sleep and indulge in sex. Nidrayā hriyate naktam vyavāyena ca vā vayah: [SB 2.1.3] at night, materialistic householders sleep or indulge in sex life. Divā cārthehayā rajan kutumba-bharanena vā: during the day they are busy trying to find out where money is, and if they get money they spend it to maintain their families. Yamarāja specifically advises his servants to bring these persons to him for punishment and not to bring the devotees, who always lick the honey at the lotus feet of the Lord, who are equal to everyone, and who try to preach Krishna consciousness because of sympathy for all living entities. Devotees are not liable to punishment by Yamarāja, but persons who have no information of Krishna consciousness cannot be protected by their material life of so-called family enjoyment. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says (2.1.4):
dehāpatya-kalatrādishv
Such persons complacently believe that their nations, communities or families can protect them, unaware that all such fallible soldiers will be destroyed in due course of time. In conclusion, one should try to associate with persons who engage in devotional service twenty-four hours a day.
Copyright © r The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness