CHAPTER THREE
Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart
TEXT 1
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Tut aA TAIT Het 1
manafaned TE TTA A |
Sri Suka uvaca
evam etan nigaditam
prstavan yad bhavan mama
nram yan mriyamananam
manusyesu manisinam
Sri Sukah uvaca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; evam—so; etat—all these;
nigaditarn—answered; prstavan—as you inquired; yat—what; bhavan—your
good self; mama—unto me; nrndm—of the human being; yat—one; mriya-
mananam—on the threshold of death; manusyesu—amongst the human
beings; manisindm—of the intelligent men.
TRANSLATION
Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Maharaja Parikgit, as you have inquired
from me as to the duty of the intelligent man who is on the threshold of
death, so I have answered you.
PURPORT
In the human society all over the world there are millions and billions
of men and women, and almost all of them are less intelligent because
they have very little knowledge of spirit soul. Almost all of them have a
wrong conception of life, for they identify themselves with the gross and
subtle material bodies, which they are not, in fact. They may be situated
in different high and low positions in the estimation of human society, but
one should know definitely that unless one inquires about his own self
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