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King Purañjana Goes to the Forest to Hunt
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and regulations but at the same time not to be fixed in the regulative principles. This is called  niyamāgraha . By mixing with undesirable persons or  jana-saṅga , one becomes tainted with lust and greed and falls down from the path of devotional service.
TEXT 14
अन्तःपुरस्त्रियोऽपृच्छद्विमना इव वेदिषत् । अपि वः कुशलं रामाः सेश्वरीणां यथा पुरा ॥१४॥
antaḥpura-striyo 'pṛcchad vimanā iva vediṣat api vaḥ kuśalam rāmāḥ seśvarīṇām yathā purā
antaḥpura —household;  striyaḥ —women;  apṛcchat —he asked;  vimanāḥ —being too much anxious;  iva —like;  vediṣat —O King Prācīnabarhi;  api —whether;  vaḥ —your;  kuśalam —good fortune;  rāmāḥ —O you beautiful women;  sa-tīśvarīṇām —with your mistress;  yathā —as;  purā —before.
TRANSLATION
At that time King Purañjana was a little anxious, and he inquired from the household women: My dear beautiful women, are you and your mistress all very happy like before, or not?
PURPORT
In this verse the word  vediṣat  indicates King Prācīnabarhi. When a man becomes refreshed by association with devotees and awakes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he consults the activities of his mind—namely, thinking, feeling and willing—and decides whether he should again return to his material activities or stay steady in spiritual consciousness. The word  kuśalam  refers to that which is auspicious. One can make his home perfectly auspicious when he engages in devotional service to Lord Viṣṇu. When one is engaged in activities other than  viṣṇu-bhakti , or in other words when one is engaged in material activities, he is always filled with anxieties. A sane man should consult his mind, its thinking, feeling and willing processes, and decide how these processes should be utilized. If one always thinks of Kṛṣṇa, feels how to serve Him and wills to execute the order of Kṛṣṇa, it should be known that he has taken good instruction from his intelligence,