nūnaḿ bhagavato brahman
gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām
na lakṣyate hy avasthānam
api go-dohanaḿ kvacit
SYNONYMS
nūnam — because; bhagavataḥ — of you, who are powerful; brahman — O brāhmaṇa; gṛheṣu — in the houses; gṛha-medhinām — of the householders; na — not; lakṣyate — are seen; hi — exactly; avasthānam — staying in; api — even; go-dohanam — milking the cow; kvacit — rarely.
TRANSLATION
O powerful brāhmaṇa, it is said that you hardly stay in the houses of men long enough to milk a cow.
PURPORT
Saints and sages in the renounced order of life go to the houses of the householders at the time they milk the cows, early in the morning, and ask some quantity of milk for subsistence. A pound of milk fresh from the milk bag of a cow is sufficient to feed an adult with all vitamin values, and therefore saints and sages live only on milk. Even the poorest of the householders keep at least ten cows, each delivering twelve to twenty quarts of milk, and therefore no one hesitates to spare a few pounds of milk for the mendicants. It is the duty of householders to maintain the saints and sages, like the children. So a saint like Śukadeva Gosvāmī would hardly stay at the house of a householder for more than five minutes in the morning. In other words, such saints are very rarely seen in the houses of householders, and Mahārāja Parīkṣit therefore prayed to him to instruct him as soon as possible. The householders also should be intelligent enough to get some transcendental information from visiting sages. The householder should not foolishly ask a saint to deliver what is available in the market. That should be the reciprocal relation between the saints and the householders.
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"Saints and sages live only on milk."
ReplyDeleteTherefore His Divine Grace gave this ultimatum January 21, 1977:
"WE should be SATISFIED locally by our food, by our cloth, by OUR MILK. That's all.
Let the whole world GO TO HELL. We don't care.
If you want to SAVE YOURSELF ALSO, YOU DO THIS.
Here is an example. If you want artificial life, city life, and hellish life, you do.
But we shall live like this. This is the ideal life…
WE keep the ideal style of life. YOU LEARN AND DO IT. I am not encroaching upon your independence, but IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY, you follow. This is our process.
Apani acari prabhu jiveri siksaya. YOU be happy, VERY IDEALLY, and people will learn.
But this can be possible only on the basis of Krsna consciousness."
So Prabhus! If we want to be happy,and even save ourselves (from ----, as Srila Prabhupada is inferring above), then produce food and milk by protecting cows and bulls as a vaisya and live on THAT,
live on the 25% tax of THAT by facilitating and protecting THAT as a ksatriya,
serve as a sudra to eat(drink) THAT,
or teach THAT( but first learn it) living only on THAT(milk)as a brahmana(ideally "Saints and sages live only on milk." also:
"The brahmana cannot take any other food except it is made of milk preparation." LA, Dec4,1968).
I.E everyone only eating milk products from our protected cows (and food produced by the bulls)through CO-OPERATION of these four DEVOTEE livelihoods.
("Because I have taken sannyasa, therefore I cannot any more do anything." If need be, he has to act as ksatriya. Or a sudra. It doesn't matter. March 12, 1974 Vrndavan
"brahminical initiation...
Prabhupada: Not necessary. You remain as a ksatriya. You'll be ha...Feb 14,1977)
"This is the next aspect of Krsna Consciousness which I wish to push forward" (letter to Hari Sauri August 1977)without the following of which we cannot preach:
("THIS we want to preach" Feb. 14, 1977)
"Unless in the human society the varnasrama system is introduced, no scheme or social order (Society), health order or any order, political order, will be successful". Oct 18, 1977
YS
servant of the servants of His Divine Grace
Jaya! All Glories to Prabhupada!
ReplyDeleteWell said Gopinatha Prabhu.