Text 7] Ideal Family Life 149
friends, children, parents, brothers or anyone else, he should ex-
ternally agree, saying, ‘‘Yes, that is all right,”’ but internally he
should be determined not to create a cumbersome life in which the
purpose of life will not be fulfilled.
TEXT 7
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divyam bhaumam cantariksarn
vittam acyuta-nirmitam
tat sarvam upayunjana
etat kuryat svato budhah
divyam—easily obtained because of rainfall from the sky;
bhaumam—obtained from the mines and the sea; ca—and;
Gntariksam—obtained by chance; vittam—all property; acyuta-
nirmitam—created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead; tat—those
things; sarvam—all; upayunjana —utilizing (for all human society or all
living beings); etat—this (maintaining body and soul together);
kuryét—one must do; svatah—obtained of itself, without extra en-
deavor; budhah—the intelligent person.
TRANSLATION
The natural products created by the Supreme Personality of
Godhead should be utilized to maintain the bodies and souls of all
living entities. The necessities of life are of three types: those pro-
duced from the sky [from rainfall], from the earth [from the
mines, the seas or the fields], and from the atmosphere [that which
is obtained suddenly and unexpectedly].
PURPORT
We living entities in different forms are all children of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, as confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita
(14.4):
