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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 1]
restraint is very difficult, but it is quite possible if one fully surrenders to Kṛṣṇa, since all these abominable habits gradually become distasteful for a Kṛṣṇa conscious person. If illicit sex is allowed to increase in a society, however, the entire society will be condemned, for it will be full of rogues, thieves, cheaters and so forth.
TEXT 23
एवं निवसतस्तस्य लालयानस्य तत्सुतान् । कालोऽत्यगान्महान् राजन्त्रष्टाशीत्यायुषः समाः॥ २३॥
evam nivasatas tasya lālayānasya tat-sutān kālo 'tyagān mahān rājann aṣṭāśītyāyuṣaḥ samāḥ
evam—in this way; nivasataḥ—living; tasya—of him (Ajāmila); lālayānasya—maintaining; tat—of her (the śūdrāṇī); sutān—sons; kālaḥ—time; atyagāt—passed away; mahān—a great amount; rājan—O King; aṣṭāśītyā—eighty-eight; āyuṣaḥ—of the duration of life; samāḥ—years.
TRANSLATION
My dear King, while he thus spent his time in abominable, sinful activities to maintain his family of many sons, eighty-eight years of his life passed by.
TEXT 24
तस्य प्रवयसः पुत्रा दश तेषां तु योऽवमः । बालो नारायणो नाम्ना पित्रोश्च दयितो भृशम् ॥ २४॥
tasya pravayasaḥ putrā daśa teṣām tu yo 'vamaḥ bālo nārāyaṇo nāmnā pitroś ca dayito bhṛśam