CHAPTER THREE
Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart
TEXT 1
श्रीशुक उवाच
नृणां यन्त्रियमाणानां मनुष्येषु मनीषिणाम् ॥ १ ॥
एवमेतन्निगदितं पृष्टवान् यद्भवान् मम ।
śrī śuka uvāca evam etan nigaditam pṛṣṭavān yad bhavān mama nṛṇām yan mriyamāṇānām manuṣyeṣu manīṣiṇām
śrī śukaḥ uvaca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; evam—so; etat—all these; nigaditam—answered; pṛṣṭavān—as you inquired; yat—what; bhavān—your good self; mama—unto me; nṛṇām—of the human being; yat—one; mriyamāṇānām—on the threshold of death; manuṣyeṣu—amongst the human beings; manīṣiṇām—of the intelligent men.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as you have inquired from me as to the duty of the intelligent man who is on the threshold of death, so I have answered you.
PURPORT
In the human society all over the world there are millions and billions of men and women, and almost all of them are less intelligent because they have very little knowledge of spirit soul. Almost all of them have a wrong conception of life, for they identify themselves with the gross and subtle material bodies, which they are not, in fact. They may be situated in different high and low positions in the estimation of human society, but one should know definitely that unless one inquires about his own self
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