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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [chants verse; chants synonyms; devotees …

mekhālajina-vāsāṁsi jaṭā-daṇḍa-kamaṇḍalūn bibhṛyād upavītaṁ ca darbha-pāṇir yathoditam

[SB 7.12.4]

[03:26]

Translation = "The brahmacārī should carry in the hand pure kuśa grass, dressing himself regularly with a belt of straw, …

Prabhupāda:

mekhālajina-vāsāṁsi jaṭā-daṇḍa-kamaṇḍalūn bibhṛyād upavītaṁ ca darbha-pāṇir yathoditam

[SB 7.12.4]

So description of brahmacārī is going on here, the dress. The dress should be as simple as possible. So the …

So this is called anartha. Anartha means things which are not wanted. This is the distinction between East and West. …

Fearing, we have got... We are afraid because we are thinking, "I am this body." Bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśataḥ syāt [SB 11.2.37]. …

Mekhalājina-vāsāṁsi jatā-daṇḍa-kamaṇḍalūn. Jaṭā. Jaṭā means the bunch of hair. Means you should not take care of the hair. Then automatically …

So jaṭā-kamaṇḍalūn bibhṛyāt. Bibhṛyād upavītam. But the sacred thread must be there, sacred thread. That is the sign that, that …

So this will not make us happy. This is a fact, that punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām [SB 7.5.30]. There is no …

So the society is creating unnecessarily entanglement, anartha. So this, the Bhāgavata culture, Bhāgavata-dharma, which we are trying to spread, …

So if you want to be peaceful, happy, you have to again bring in the Vedic culture---simple life and high …

Anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje, lokasya ajānataḥ [SB 1.7.6]. These rascals, they do not know how to accept leader. And vidvāṁś …

So this is civilization, how one should be conscious about his self, why he is put into this tribulation. 'Ke …

Thank you very much.