well blind/dark [family life is like falling into]
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Imported quote 14140 Those who are too much attached to family life-which consists of entanglement with wife, children, wealth and home-are engaged in kūta-dharma, pseudo duties. Prahlada Maharaja has likened these pseudo occupational duties to a dark well (andha-kūpam). Prahlada has purposefully spoken of this dark well because if one falls into this well, he will die. He may cry for help, but no one will hear him or come to rescue him.
(More...) Imported quote 14761 Giving up a comfortable home life is absolutely necessary for human beings and is advised by Prahlada Maharaja. Hitvatma-patam grham andha-kūpam: To finish the materialistic way of life, one should leave his so-called comfortable home life, which is simply a means for killing the soul (atma-patam). The home is considered to be a dark well covered by grass, and if one falls within this well, he simply dies without anyone's caring. One should therefore not be too much attached to family life, for it will spoil one's development of Krsna consciousness.
(More...) Imported quote 14814 The word parabhavaḥ in this verse is also significant. When one is satisfied in family life, he is doomed because he must already have forgotten his relationship with the Lord. Prahlada Maharaja describes how the activities of family life implicate one more and more. Atma-patam grham andha-kūpam: household life is like a dark well. If one falls into this well, his spiritual death is assured. How Priyavrata Maharaja remained a liberated paramahamsa even within family life is described in the next verse. .
(More...) Imported quote 14890 The King thus began criticizing himself: Alas, how condemned I have become because of my sense gratification! I have now fallen into material enjoyment, which is exactly like a covered well. I have had enough! I am not going to enjoy any more. Just see how I have become like a dancing monkey in the hands of my wife. Because of this, I am condemned.
(More...) Imported quote 17330 sri-prahladaḥ uvaca-Prahlada Maharaja replied; tat-that; sadhu-very good, or the best part of life; manye-I think; asura-varya-O King of the asuras; dehinam-of persons who have accepted the material body; sada-always; samudvigna-full of anxieties; dhiyam-whose intelligence; asat-grahat-because of accepting the temporary body or bodily relations as real (thinking "I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine"); hitva-giving up; atma-patam-the place where spiritual culture or self-realization is stopped; grham-the bodily concept of life, or household life; andha-kūpam-which is nothing but a blind well (where there is no water but one nonetheless searches for water); vanam-to the forest; gataḥ-going; yat-which; harim-the Supreme Personality of Godhead; asrayeta-may take shelter of.
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