286 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 5

also very much afraid. However, we have no alternative than to teach our
disciples to free themselves from materialistic life. We must instruct
them in the opposite of material life to save them from the repetition of
birth and death.

Narada Muni, therefore, advised the Haryasvas, the sons of Prajapati
Daksa, that instead of begetting progeny, it would be better to leave and
achieve the perfection of spiritual understanding according to the
instructions of the sastras. The importance of the Sdstras is mentioned in

Bhagavad-gita (16.23):

yah Ssdastra-vidhim utsrjya
vartate kima-karatah

na sa siddhim avapnoti
na sukham na param gatim

“One who disregards the injunctions of the sdstras and acts whimsically,
as he likes, never achieves the perfection of life, not to speak of
happiness. Nor does he return home to the spiritual world.”

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iti vyavasita rajan
haryasva eka-cetasah

prayayus tam parikramya
panthdnam anivartanam

iti—thus; vyavasitah—being fully convinced by the instructions of
Narada Muni; rajan—O King; haryasvah—the sons of Prajapati Daksa;
eka-cetasah—all being of the same opinion; prayayuh—left; tam—
Narada Muni; parikramya—circumambulating; panthanam—on the
path; anivartanam—which does not bring one back again to this
material world.
