disturbed by the threefold miseries of material life. Everyone
wants to be happy in his householder life, but the laws of nature
do not allow one to become happy in material existence, which is
like a Spontaneous forest fire.

In the Age of Kali, as described before, people in general no
longer take pleasure in the presence of saints and sages, nor are
they interested in spiritual enlightenment. The saints and sages,
however, take all risks to propagate the message of Godhead.
Lord Jesus Christ, Thakura Haridasa, Lord Nityananda Prabhu,
and many such sages risked their life to propagate the message
of Godhead. Self-realized saints and sages take such risks for the
spiritual enlightenment of the people in general. They do not take
vows of silence meant to win cheap glory from the ignorant mass
of people. God is satisfied only when His devotees take all sorts
of risks to propagate His glories. Such devotees are unafraid of
the difficult journey to cross the ocean of nescience. They are
always anxious for the welfare of the fallen souls, who are
a..ached to the false enjoyment of materialistic life, in which they
forget their eternal relation with God.

It is the duty of the saints and sages to enlighten the fallen
souls, and reciprocally it is the duty of the householder to receive
the saints and sages cordially, as the peacock dances in ecstasy
at the presence of clouds in the sky. The fire of threefold miseries
experienced by materialistic men can be extinguished only by the
cloud of mercy of the saints and sages who can pour down the
water of transcendental messages to put an end to the miseries of
the householders.#

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