780 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 20
he is the substitute for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (Bhag. 11.17.27)
One should treat the spiritual master as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead and never be envious of him or consider him to be an ordinary
human being. If we follow the instruction of the spiritual master and
execute devotional service to the Lord, we will remain always free from
the contamination of bodily or material activities, and our life will be
successful.
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Sreyah praja-palanam eva rajiio
yat samparaye sukrtat sastham amsam
hartanyatha hrta-punyah prajanam
araksita karaharo ‘gham atti

Sreyah—auspicious; praja-palanam—ruling over the general mass of
people; eva—certainly; rajiah—for the king; yat—because; samparaye—in
the next birth; su-krtat—from the pious activities; sastham amsam-—one-
sixth part; harta—collector; anyatha—otherwise; hrta-punyah—being bereft
of the results of pious activities; prajanam—of the citizens; araksita—one
who does not protect; kara-harah—tax collector; agham—sin; atti—receives
or suffers.

TRANSLATION

To give protection to the general mass of people who are citizens of the
state is the prescribed occupational duty for a king. By acting in that way,
the king in his next life shares one sixth of the result of the pious activities
of the citizens. But a king or executive head of state who simply collects
taxes from the citizens but does not give them proper protection as human
beings has the results of his own pious activities taken away by the citizens,
and in exchange for his not giving protection he becomes liable to punish-
ment for the impious activities of his subjects.

PURPORT

The question may be raised here that if everyone engaged in spiritual

activities to attain salvation and became indifferent to the activities of the
