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Harikeśa: ...Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Seventh Canto, Sixth Chapter, ninth verse. [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

ko gṛheṣu pumān saktam ātmānam ajitendriyaḥ sneha-pāśair dṛḍhair baddham utsaheta vimocitum

[SB 7.6.9]

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Translation = "Who is the person who is too much attached to household life on account of being unable to …

Prabhupāda:

ko gṛheṣu pumān saktam ātmānam ajitendriyaḥ sneha-pāśair dṛḍhair baddham utsaheta vimocitum

[SB 7.6.9]

The point is discussed, how one can get out of the bondage of material existence, vimocitam. But people do not …

na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ

[SB 7.5.31]

Again the same thing. Īśa tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ.

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