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> > Persons who are always disturbed in mind with cares and anxieties of

> > household affairs may quit off the place which is the black hole

> > temporary abode [family life] to kill one's self and take shelter unto

> > the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead by entering into the

> > forest. --A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

> >

> > The management of a family is more difficult than that of an empire.

> > -- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

>

> SB 10.47.18

 

> To hear about the pastimes that KŠa regularly performs is nectar for the

> ears. For those who relish just a single drop of that nectar, even once,

> their dedication to material duality is ruined. Many such persons have

> suddenly given up their wretched homes and families and, themselves

> becoming wretched, traveled here to Vnd€vana to wander about like birds,

> begging for their living.

 

Thank you, Maharaja, for reminding us of this nice section of Srila

Prabhupada's Krishna book:

 

“In My opinion,” ®r…mat… R€dh€r€Š… continued, “no one should hear about

KŠa, because as soon as a drop of the nectar of His transcendental

activities is poured into the ear, one immediately rises above the duality

of attraction and rejection. Being completely freed from the contamination

of material attachment, one gives up attachment for this material world,

including family, home, wife, children and everything else materially dear

to every person. Being deprived of all material acquisitions, one makes his

relatives and himself unhappy. Then he wanders in search of KŠa, either as

a human being or in other species of life, even as a bird, and voluntarily

accepts the profession of a mendicant.”

 

Once I wrote a poem about this section of Krishna book. My spiritual

master, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, told me that Srila Prabhupada liked rhyming

poetry done of the Krishna book:

 

'No one should hear these Krishna talks,

For if a drop goes in one's ear,

One's freed from all dualities

And things materially dear.

 

'Free of material desire,

One gives up family and home.

Wandering in search of Krishna,

Going here and there, he will roam.'

 

your servant,

Krishna-kripa das

 

Devotional Poems: http://www.afn.org/~afn18429/poems.htm