Canakya Pandit

So ataḥ grha. As soon as a man and woman or a male-female, either bird, beast or human being or demigods, everyone... Then he requires home, grha, then land to produce food, grha-ksetra, then children. Grha-ksetra. Because when a man is married, the social life, if he has no children, that is means vacant home. Putra-hinam grham sūnyam. Canakya Panḍita has said, vidya hinam jivanam sūnyam: "One who is not educated, his life is zero." Vidya hinam jivanam sūnyam. And disaḥ sūnya deha abandhavaḥ: "And if you want to go to some foreign place, if that place is not a holy place..." Because according to Vedic system, they go on touring to see holy places, tirtha-sthana, or to a friend's house. "So if you are going to some foreign countries, if there is no friend and no devata, then it is useless." Disaḥ sūnya deha abandhavaḥ. Or putra-hinam grham sūnyam: "You are married, but you have no children. That is also vacant, zero." Putra-hinam grham sūnyam. Sarva-sūnya daridrata: "But if you are poor, then everything is zero." Your vidya is zero, your home is zero, and your friend is zero, because nobody will care you.    (More...)

This material life is sammoha, aham mameti. Atha... The material life begins: pumsaḥ striya mithuni-bhavam etat [SB 5.5.8]. This material life is described in four lines. What is this material life? Now, pumsaḥ striya mithuni-bhavam etam. Etat, this material life, is nothing but an attraction of sex. Pumsam striya. The man is after woman, and woman is after man. This is material life, beginning. Everywhere, not only human society. Even in bird society, dog society, cat society or demigods' society-everywhere you'll see the sex attraction. Pumsaḥ striya mithuni-bhavam etam tayor mitho hrdaya-granthim ahuḥ. And... They are seeking, and as soon as they are joined together to satisfy the sex desire, their the, I mean to say, attraction becomes more and more tight. Then ato grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair janasya moho 'yam aham mameti [SB 5.5.8]. So as soon as they are combined, they require one house or apartment or cottage or nest. Something must be private. Ataḥ grha-ksetra. Then to work, to earn livelihood, one must have some land. Either you construct skyscraper building or till it for get some food grain. Ataḥ grha-ksetra, suta. Then without children, married life is frustrated. Putra-hinam grham sūnyam. Married life without children is void. Vidya hinam jivanam sūnyam. If one is not educated, his life is vacate, or vacant. Vidya hinam jivanam sūnyam disaḥ sūnya deva abandhavaḥ. And if you go to some foreign country, if there is no deva, temple, God's temple, or friend, that is also useless. And putra-hinam grham sūnyam. And if you have no children, the so-called married life is also void. And sarva-sūnya daridrata. And if you are poor, in poverty, then everything is zero. Even if you have got a wife, or even if you have got education, even you have got friend, everything is... That is Canakya Panḍita's advice.    (More...)