Text 19] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1385

TEXT 19

ai daa fier § argaerey |
fier pacman: Trae fea: 128

niinam daivena vihata
ye cacyuta-kathd-sudham
hitud srnvanty asad-gathah
purisam iva vid-bhujah

nitnam—certainly; daivena—by the order of the Lord; vihatéh—con-
demned; ye—those who; ca—also; acyuta—of the infallible Lord; katha—
stories; sudham—nectar; hitva—having given up; srnvanti—they hear;
asat-gathah—stories about materialistic persons; purisam—stool; iva—like;
vit-bhujah—stool-eaters (hogs).

TRANSLATION

Such persons are condemned by the supreme order of the Lord. Because
they are averse to the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, they are compared to stool-eating hogs. They give up hearing
the transcendental activities of the Lord and indulge in hearing of the
abominable activities of materialistic persons.

PURPORT

Everyone is addicted to hearing of the activities of another person,
whether a politician, or a rich man, or an imaginary character whose
activities are created in a novel. There are so many nonsensical literatures,
stories and books of speculative philosophy. Materialistic persons are very
interested in reading such literature, but when they are presented with
genuine books of knowledge like Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita,
Visnu Purana or other scriptures of the world, such as the Bible and Koran,
they are not interested. These persons are condemned by the supreme
order as much as a hog is condemned. The hog is interested in eating stool.
If the hog is offered some nice preparation made of condensed milk or
ghee, he won’t like it; he would prefer obnoxious, bad-smelling stool,
which he finds very relishable. Materialistic persons are considered to be
condemned because they are interested in hellish activities and not in
transcendental activities. The message of the Lord’s activities is nectar,
