782 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 20
save their children from imminent death, they become responsible for the
activities of their animalistic children. Lately, such children are turning into
hippies. Similarly, if a spiritual master cannot direct his disciples to become
free of sinful activities, he becomes responsible for their sinful acts. These
subtle laws of nature are unknown to the present leaders of society. Since
the leaders of society have a poor fund of knowledge and the citizens in
general are rogues and thieves, there cannot be an auspicious situation for
human society. At the present moment the whole world is full of such an
incompatible combination of state and citizens, and therefore there is
constant tension, war and anxiety as an inevitable result of such social
conditions.
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AT HSA TATA
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gerfa = fargiaacnara 124!
evan duijagryanumatanuortta-
dharma-pradhano ’nyatamo ‘vitdsyah
hrasvena kalena grhopayatan
drastasi siddhan anurakta-lokah
evam—thus; dvija—of the brahmanas; agrya—by the foremost; anumata—
approved; anuvurtta—received by disciplic succession; dharma—religious
principles; pradhanah—he whose chief interest is; anyatamah—unattached;
avita—the protector; asyah—of the earth; hrasvena— short; kalena— in time;
grha—to your home; upayaétan—having come personally; drastasi—you will
see; siddhan—perfected personalities; anurakta-lokah—being loved by the
citizens.
TRANSLATION
Lord Visnu continued: My dear King Prthu, if you continue to protect
the citizens according to the instructions of the learned brahmana authori-
ties, as they are received by the disciplic succession—by hearing—from
master to disciple, and if you follow the religious principles laid down by
them, without attachment to ideas manufactured by mental concoction,
then every one of your citizens will be happy and will love you, and very
soon you will be able to see such already liberated personalities as the four
Kumiaras [ Sanaka, Sanatana, Sananda and Sanat-kumara ].
