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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 31]
PURPORT
Remaining in family life is a kind of concession for sense enjoyment. One should know that sense enjoyment is not required, but one has to accept sense enjoyment inasmuch as one has to live. As confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.10):  kāmasya nendriya-prītiḥ . One has to become a  gosvāmī  and control his senses. One should not simply use his senses for sense gratification; rather, the senses should be employed just as much as required for maintaining body and soul together. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī recommends:  anāsaktasya viṣayān yathārham upayuñjataḥ . One should not be attached to sense objects but should accept sense enjoyment as much as required, no more. If one wishes to enjoy the senses more than required, he becomes attached to family life, which means bondage. All the Pracetās admitted their fault in remaining in household life.
TEXT 7
तन्नः प्रद्योत्याच्यात्मज्ञानं तत्त्वार्थदर्शनम् । येनाञ्जसा तरिष्यामो दुस्तरं मवसागरम् ॥ ७ ॥
tan naḥ pradyotayādhyātma- jñānam tattvārtha-darśanam yenāñjasā tariṣyāmo dustaram bhava-sāgaram
tat —therefore;  naḥ —for us;  pradyotaya —kindly awaken;  adhyātma —transcendental;  jñānam —knowledge;  tattva —Absolute Truth;  artha —for the purpose of;  darśanam —philosophy;  yena —by which;  añjasā —easily;  tariṣyāmaḥ —we can cross over;  dustaram —formidable;  bhava-sāgaram —the ocean of nescience.
TRANSLATION
Dear master, kindly enlighten us in transcendental knowledge, which may act as a torchlight by which we may cross the dark nescience of material existence.
PURPORT
The Pracetās requested Nārada to enlighten them in transcendental knowledge. Generally when a common man meets a saintly person, he wishes to get some material benediction. However, the Pracetās were not interested in material benefit, for they had enjoyed all this sufficiently.