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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 20]
save their children from imminent death, they become responsible for the activities of their animalistic children. Lately, such children are turning into hippies. Similarly, if a spiritual master cannot direct his disciples to become free of sinful activities, he becomes responsible for their sinful acts. These subtle laws of nature are unknown to the present leaders of society. Since the leaders of society have a poor fund of knowledge and the citizens in general are rogues and thieves, there cannot be an auspicious situation for human society. At the present moment the whole world is full of such an incompatible combination of state and citizens, and therefore there is constant tension, war and anxiety as an inevitable result of such social conditions.
TEXT 15
एवं द्विजाग्र्यानुमतानुवृत्त- धर्मप्रधानोऽन्यतमोऽवितास्याः । हस्वेन कालेन गृहोपयातान् द्रष्टासि सिद्धाननुरक्तलोकः ॥१५॥
evam dvijāgryānumatānuvṛtta- dharma-pradhāno 'nyatamo 'vitāsyāḥ hrasvena kālena gṛhopayātān draṣṭāsi siddhān anurakta-lokaḥ
evam—thus; dvija—of the brāhmaṇas; agrya—by the foremost; anumata—approved; anuvṛtta—received by disciplic succession; dharma—religious principles; pradhānaḥ—he whose chief interest is; anyatamaḥ—unattached; avitā—the protector; asyāḥ—of the earth; hrasvena—short; kālena—in time; gṛha—to your home; upayātān—having come personally; draṣṭāsi—you will see; siddhān—perfected personalities; anurakta-lokaḥ—being loved by the citizens.
TRANSLATION
Lord Viṣṇu continued: My dear King Pṛthu, if you continue to protect the citizens according to the instructions of the learned brāhmaṇa authorities, as they are received by the disciplic succession—by hearing—from master to disciple, and if you follow the religious principles laid down by them, without attachment to ideas manufactured by mental concoction, then every one of your citizens will be happy and will love you, and very soon you will be able to see such already liberated personalities as the four Kumāras [Sanaka, Sanātana, Sananda and Sanat-kumāra].