Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.5.38

evam tvam niranukrośo

bālānām mati-bhid dhareh

pārshada-madhye carasi

yaśo-hā nirapatrapah

SYNONYMS

evam — thus; tvam — you (Nārada); niranukrośah — without compassion; bālānām — of innocent, inexperienced boys; mati-bhit — contaminating the consciousness; hareh — of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pārshada-madhye — among the personal associates; carasi — travel; yaśah-hā — defaming the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nirapatrapah — (although you do not know what you are doing, you are executing sinful activities) without shame.

TRANSLATION

Prajāpati Daksha continued: Thus committing violence against other living entities and yet claiming to be an associate of Lord Vishnu, you are defaming the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You needlessly created a mentality of renunciation in innocent boys, and therefore you are shameless and devoid of compassion. How could you travel with the personal associates of the Supreme Lord ?

PURPORT

This mentality of Prajāpati Daksha still continues even today. When young boys join the Krishna consciousness movement, their fathers and so-called guardians are very angry at the propounder of the Krishna consciousness movement because they think that their sons have been unnecessarily induced to deprive themselves of the material enjoyments of eating, drinking and merrymaking. Karmīs, fruitive workers, think that one should fully enjoy his present life in this material world and also perform some pious activities to be promoted to higher planetary systems for further enjoyment in the next life. A yogī, however, especially a bhakti-yogī, is callous to the opinions of this material world. He is not interested in traveling to the higher planetary systems of the demigods to enjoy a long life in an advanced materialistic civilization. As stated by Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, kaivalyam narakāyate tridaśa-pūr ākāśa-pushpāyate: for a devotee, merging into the Brahman existence is hellish, and life in the higher planetary systems of the demigods is a will-o'-the-wisp, a phantasmagoria with no real existence at all. A pure devotee is not interested in yogic perfection, travel to higher planetary systems, or oneness with Brahman. He is interested only in rendering service to the Personality of Godhead. Since Prajāpati Daksha was a karmī, he could not appreciate the great service Nārada Muni had rendered his eleven thousand sons. Instead, he accused Nārada Muni of being sinful and charged that because Nārada Muni was associated with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord would also be defamed. Thus Daksha criticized that Nārada Muni was an offender to the Lord although he was known as an associate of the Lord.

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