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The Story of King Vena
599
PURPORT
It is a fact that the government's duty is to see that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is satisfied by the activities of the people as well as by the activities of the government. There is no possibility of happiness if the government or citizenry have no idea of Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the original cause of the cosmic manifestation, or if they have no knowledge of  bhūta-bhāvana , who is  viśvātmā , or the Supersoul, the soul of everyone's soul. The conclusion is that without engaging in devotional service, neither the citizens nor the government can be happy in any way. At the present moment neither the king nor the governing body is interested in seeing that the people are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Rather, they are more interested in advancing the machinery of sense gratification. Consequently they are becoming more and more implicated in the complex machinery of the stringent laws of nature. People should be freed from the entanglement of the three modes of material nature, and the only process by which this is possible is surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is advised in  Bhagavad-gītā . Unfortunately neither the government nor the people in general have any idea of this; they are simply interested in sense gratification and in being happy in this life. The word  nija-śāsane  (in his own governmental duty) indicates that both the government and the citizens are responsible for the execution of  varṇāśrama-dharma . Once the populace is situated in the  varṇāśrama-dharma , there is every possibility of real life and prosperity both in this world and in the next.
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तस्मिंस्तुष्टे किमप्राप्यं जगतामीश्वरेश्वरे । लोकाः सपाला ह्येतस्मै हरन्ति बलिमाद्दताः ॥२०॥
tasmiṁs tuṣṭe kim aprāpyaṁ jagatām īśvareśvare lokāḥ sapālā hy etasmai haranti balim ādṛtāḥ
tasmin —when He;  tuṣṭe —is satisfied;  kim —what;  aprāpyam —impossible to achieve;  jagatām —of the universe;  īśvara-īśvare —controller of the controllers;  lokāḥ —the inhabitants of the planets;  sa-pālāḥ —with their presiding deities;  hi —for this reason;  etasmai —unto Him;  haranti —offer;  balim —paraphernalia for worship;  ādṛtāḥ —with great pleasure.