Text 14] King Purafijana Goes to the Forest to Hunt 1227

and regulations but at the same time not to be fixed in the regulative
principles. This is called niyamagraha. By mixing with undesirable persons
or jana-saiiga, one becomes tainted with lust and greed and falls down from
the path of devotional service.

TEXT 14

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OAT a: SIS TA Vat Aa FT N2vMl

antahpura-striyo ’prcechad
vimana iva vedisat

api vah kusalarh ramah
sesvarinam yatha pura

antahpura—household; striyah— women; aprechat—he asked; vimanah—
being too much anxious; iva—like; vedisat—O King Pracinabarhi; api—
whether; vah—your; kusalam—good fortune; ramah—O you beautiful
women; sa-isvarindm—with your mistress; yatha—as; purd—before.

TRANSLATION

At that time King Purafijana was a little anxious, and he inquired from
the household women: My dear beautiful women, are you and your
mistress all very happy like before, or not?

PURPORT

In this verse the word vedisat indicates King Pracinabarhi. When a man
becomes refreshed by association with devotees and awakes to Krsna
consciousness, he consults the activities of his mind—namely, thinking,
feeling and willing—and decides whether he should again return to his
material activities or stay steady in spiritual consciousness. The word
kusalam refers to that which is auspicious. One can make his home perfectly
auspicious when he engages in devotional service to Lord Visnu. When one
is engaged in activities other than visnu-bhakti, or in other words when
one is engaged in material activities, he is always filled with anxieties. A
sane man should consult his mind, its thinking, feeling and willing processes,
and decide how these processes should be utilized. If one always thinks of
Krsna, feels how to serve Him and wills to execute the order of Krsna, it
should be known that he has taken good instruction from his intelligence,
