Text 36] Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa
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for his future use. Similarly,  kṣatriyas  may collect taxes from the citizens, and they must also protect the citizens, enforce rules and regulations, and maintain law and order.  Vaiśyas  should earn their livelihood through agriculture and cow protection, and  śūdras  should maintain their livelihood by serving the three higher classes. Unless one becomes a  brāhmaṇa , one cannot take  sannyāsa .  Sannyāsīs  and  brahmacārīs  may beg alms door to door, but a  gṛhastha  cannot.
Prajāpati Dakṣa condemned Nārada Muni because Nārada, a  brahmacārī  who could beg from door to door, had made  sannyāsīs  of Dakṣa's sons, who were being trained to be  gṛhasthas . Dakṣa was extremely angry at Nārada because he thought that Nārada had done him a great injustice. According to Dakṣa's opinion, Nārada Muni had misled Dakṣa's inexperienced sons ( asādhv akāry arbhakāṇām ). Dakṣa regarded his sons as innocent boys who had been misled when Nārada showed them the renounced order of life. Because of all these considerations, Prajāpati Dakṣa charged that Nārada Muni was  asādhu  and should not have adopted the dress of a  sādhu .
Sometimes a saintly person is misunderstood by  gṛhasthas , especially when he instructs their young sons to accept Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Generally a  gṛhastha  thinks that unless one enters  gṛhastha  life he cannot properly enter the renounced order. If a young man immediately adopts the path of the renounced order in accordance with the instructions of Nārada or a member of his disciplic succession, his parents become very angry. This same phenomenon is occurring in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement because we are instructing all the young boys in the Western countries to follow the path of renunciation. We allow  gṛhastha  life, but a  gṛhastha  also follows the path of renunciation. Even a  gṛhastha  has to give up so many bad habits that his parents think his life has been practically destroyed. We allow no meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling and no intoxication, and consequently the parents wonder how, if there are so many no's, one's life can be positive. In the Western countries especially, these four prohibited activities practically constitute the life and soul of the modern population. Therefore parents sometimes dislike our movement, just as Prajāpati Dakṣa disliked the activities of Nārada and accused Nārada of dishonesty. Nevertheless, although parents may be angry at us, we must perform our duty without