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So the karmīs are like that. They want actually sense gratification, but they want higher standard of sense gratification. Yes. …

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ

[SB 1.5.18]

[Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable even …

"You should try... One should try to achieve that thing which cannot be gained even by going up or going …

[Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion …

There are seven... According to Vedic information, there are fourteen different spheres of planetary system: seven down and seven up. …

Then Janaloka. In Janaloka... Great saintly persons, after death, they go to Janaloka or Maharloka. Then there is Satyaloka, or …

So here Nārada Muni says that "Try to achieve that thing which is not gained even if you go to …

And adho gacchanti... Jaghanya-guṇa-vṛtti-sthāḥ: "Those whose habits are very abominable," jaghanya. Jaghanya means very abominable, hateful. "One who is addicted …

They can lie down anywhere. They can eat anything. They have no sense that "This is not good, I am …

But here Nārada Muni says that there is another thing, which is neither achieved either in the higher planetary system …

That is the whole instruction of Bhagavad-gītā. He has also explained,

ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna mām upetya kaunteya punar janma na vidyate

[Bg. 8.16]

[From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth …

"My dear Arjuna, even if you go up to the Brahmaloka, with so much long duration of life..." Kṛṣṇa does …

So Nārada Muni also, the same thing. This is called paramparā system.

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukhaṁ kālena sarvatra gabhīra-raṁhasā

[SB 1.5.18]