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Svarūpa Dāmodara: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam class, Dallas, September 11th 1972.

Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]

śrotavyādīni rājendra nṛṇāṁ santi sahasraśaḥ apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām

[SB 2.1.2]

Prabhupāda: [indistinct] Word meaning?

Pradyumna: śrotavyādīni---subject matters for hearing; rājendra---O Emperor; nṛṇām---of human society; santi---there are; sahasraśaḥ---hundreds and thousands; apaśyatām---of the blind; ātma-tattvam---knowledge of …

[06:05]

Translation = "Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many things as …

Prabhupāda: So, apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ, apaśyatām, a means not, paśyatām refers to one who sees, so apaśyatām means one who cannot …

This is called varṇa-aśrama, aśrama means, now this word is very [indistinct], aśrama, aśrama means a place where spiritual cultivation …

Everybody, just like our spiritual method we are also, we are women, children, men but the purpose is different. In …

Therefore Bhaktivinode Ṭhākura he was a gṛhastha he was living, he was magistrate, he was living with his wife, children, …

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

All of them were gṛhastha’s, family men, Caitanya Mahāprabhu himself was married twice. His first wife died, he married for …

So here one distinct word is used, gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām, gṛhamedhī maybe later on this word means [indistinct] and at the …

If one is complete in knowledge about Kṛṣṇa what is there to be envious of others? We welcome others because …

That is their tendency, they will give us, they are not envious, that is the distinction between gṛhastha and gṛhamedhī. …

But that is actually [indistinct] but superficially it appears they are trying to [indistinct] ātma-tattvam, they may think that they …

If the professors and the scientists, so-called professors and scientists themselves are blind then what they will teach to their …

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