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BHAGAVAD-GITA 1:43

 

utsanna-kula-dharmanam

manusyanam janardana

narake niyatam vaso

bhavatity anususruma

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

utsanna--spoiled; kula-dharmanam--of those who have the family

traditions; manusyanam--of such men; janardana--O Krsna; narake--in

hell; niyatam--always; vasah--residence; bhavati--it so becomes;

iti--thus; anususruma--I have heard by disciplic succession.

 

TRANSLATION

 

O Krsna, maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic

succession that those who destroy family traditions dwell always in

hell.

 

PURPORT

 

Arjuna bases his argument not on his own personal experience, but on

what he has heard from the authorities. That is the way of receiving

real knowledge. One cannot reach the real point of factual knowledge

without being helped by the right person who is already established in

that knowledge. There is a system in the varnasrama institution by

which before death one has to undergo the process of atonement for his

sinful activities. One who is always engaged in sinful activities must

utilize the process of atonement called the prayascitta. Without doing

so, one surely will be transferred to hellish planets to undergo

miserable lives as the result of sinful activities.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.

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