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Բիդոր դարերեն   As   It   Is
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the sense-enjoyable tidings of the flickering mundane force that moves the material world
(2) Another class of  duşkrtina , or miscreant, is called the  narādhama , or the lowest of mankind.  Nara  means human being, and  adhama  means the lowest. Out of the 8,400,000 different species of living beings, there are 400,000 human species. Out of these there are numerous lower forms of human life that are mostly uncivilized. The civilized human beings are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed, but who have no religious principles, must be considered  narādhamas . Nor is religion without God religion, because the purpose of following religious principles is to know the Supreme Truth and man's relation with Him. In the  Gītā  the Personality of Godhead clearly states that there is no authority above Him and that He is the Supreme Truth. The civilized form of human life is meant for man's  reviving the lost consciousness  of his eternal relation with the Supreme Truth, the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is all-powerful. Whoever loses this chance is classified as a  narādhama . We get information from revealed scriptures that when the baby is in the mother's womb (an extremely uncomfortable situation) he prays to God for deliverance and promises to worship Him alone as soon as he gets out. To pray to God when he is in difficulty is a natural instinct in every living being because he is eternally related with God. But after his deliverance, the child forgets the difficulties of birth and forgets his deliverer also, being influenced by  māyā , the illusory energy.
It is the duty of the guardians of children to revive the divine consciousness dormant in them. The ten processes of reformatory ceremonies, as enjoined in the  Manu-smṛti , which is the guide to religious principles, are meant for reviving God consciousness in the system of  varṇāśrama . However, no process is strictly followed now in any part of the world, and therefore 99.9 percent of the population is  narādhama .
When the whole population becomes  narādhama , naturally all their so-called education is made null and void by the all-powerful energy of physical nature. According to the standard of the  Gītā , a learned man is he who sees on equal terms the learned  brāhmaṇa , the dog, the cow, the elephant and the dog-eater. That is the vision of a true devotee. Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, who is the incarnation of Godhead as divine master, delivered the typical  narādhamas , the brothers Jagai and Madhai, and showed how the mercy of a real devotee is bestowed upon the lowest of mankind. So the  narādhama  who is condemned by the Personality of Godhead can again revive his spiritual consciousness only by the mercy of a devotee.