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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 4]
where there is darkness, there is no light. But an expert devotee can turn everything to the path of light by service attitude of the Lord, and the best example here is the Pāṇḍavas. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira and householders like him can turn everything into light by dovetailing the so-called material assets in the service of the Lord, but one who is not trained up or is unable to turn everything to the service of the Lord ( nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe ) must give up all material connection before he can be fit to hear and chant the glories of the Lord, or in other words, one who has seriously heard Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for one day even, like Mahārāja Parīkṣit, from a fit personality like Śukadeva Gosvāmī, may be able to lose all affinity for material things. There is no utility simply in imitating Mahārāja Parīkṣit and hearing  Bhāgavatam  from professional men, even for seven hundred years. To take Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as a means of maintaining family expenditure is the grossest type of  nāmāparādha  offense at the feet of the Lord ( sarva-śubha-kriyā-sāmyam api pramādaḥ ).
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प्रच्छ चेममेवार्थं यन्मां पृच्छथ सत्तमाः । 
  कृष्णानुभावश्रवणे श्रद्धानो महामनाः ॥ ३ ॥ 
  संस्थां विज्ञाय संन्यस्य कर्म त्रैवर्गिकं च यत् । 
  शासुदेवे भगवति आत्मभावं दृढं गतः ॥ ४ ॥
papraccha cemam evārtham 
  yan mām pṛcchatha sattamāḥ 
  kṛṣṇānubhāva-śravaṇe 
  śraddadhāno mahā-manāḥ
saṁsthām vijñāya sannyasya 
  karma trai-vargikam ca yat 
  vāsudeve bhagavati 
  ātma-bhāvam dṛḍham gataḥ
papraccha—asked; ca—also; imam—this; eva—exactly like; artham—purpose; yat—that; mām—unto me; pṛcchatha—you are asking; sattamāḥ—O great sages; kṛṣṇa-anubhāva—rapt in the thought of Kṛṣṇa; śravaṇe—in hearing; śraddadhānaḥ—full of faith; mahā-manāḥ—great soul; saṁsthām—