1436 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 29

AAFAMATAAT ATL TTY
Hone saat faery wae 44

sa tuam vicaksya mrga-cestitam atmano ’ntas
cittam niyaccha hrdi karna-dhunim ca citte

Jahy anganasramam asattama-yiitha-gatham
prinihi hamsa-Saranarh virama kramena

sah—that very person; tuam—you; vicaksya— considering; mrga-cestitam—
the activities of the deer; atmanah—of the self; antah—within; cittam—
consciousness; niyaccha—fix; hrdi—in the heart; karna-dhunim—aural
reception; ca—and; citte—unto the consciousness; jahi—give up; afgana-
asramam—household life; asat-tama—most abominable; yitha-gatham—
full of stories of man and woman; prinihi—just accept; harisa-Saranam—
the shelter of the liberated souls; virama—become detached; kramena—
gradually.

TRANSLATION

My dear King, just try to understand the allegorical position of the deer.
Be fully conscious of yourself and give up the pleasure of hearing about
promotion to heavenly planets by fruitive activity. Give up household life,
which is full of sex, as well as stories about such things, and take shelter
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the mercy of the liberated
souls. In this way, please give up your attraction for material existence.

PURPORT

In one of his songs, Srila Narottama dasa Thakura writes:

karma-kanda, jiidna-kanda, kevala visera bhanda,
amrta baliya yebad khaya

nana yoni sada phire, kadarya bhaksana kare,
tara janma adhah-pate yaya

“Fruitive activities and mental speculation are simply cups of poison.
Whoever drinks of them, thinking them to be nectar, must struggle very
hard life after life,in different types of bodies. Such a person eats all kinds
of nonsense and becomes condemned by his activities of so-called sense
enjoyment.”
