190 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 5

O son of Kunti, all that you do. all that you eat, all that you offer and
give away. as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done
as an offering unto Me.” This is bhakti. Unless one is devoted, he cannot
give everything to the Supreme Lord. Unless one can do so, he cannot
become a spiritual master, husband, father or mother. Similarly, the
wives of the brahmanas who were performing sacrifices gave up their
relatives just to satisfy Krsna. This is an example of a wife rejecting a
husband who cannot deliver her from the impending dangers of birth
and death. Similarly, Prahlada Maharaja rejected his father, and Bharata
Maharaja rejected his mother (janani na sa syat). The word daivam indi-
cates a demigod or one who accepts worship from a dependent.
Ordinarily, the spiritual master, husband, father, mother or superior
relative accepts worship from an inferior relative, but here Rsabhadeva
forbids this. First the father, spiritual master or husband must be able to
release the dependent from repeated birth and death. If he cannot do
this, he plunges himself into the ocean of reproachment for his unlawful
activities. Everyone should be very responsible and take charge of his
dependents just as a spiritual master takes charge of his disciple or a
father takes charge of his son. All these responsibilities cannot be dis-

charged honestly unless one can save the dependent from repeated birth
and death,

TEXT 19
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idam sariram mama durvibhavyam
sattvam hi me hrdayam yatra dharmah

prsthe krto me yad adharma arad
ato hi mém rsabham prahur aryah

idam—this: Sariram—transcendental body, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha;
mama—My;: durvibhavyam—inconceivable; sattvam—with no tinge of
