opulence intoxicating

Dehapatya-kalatradisu. I was forgetting. Deha and apatya. Deha means this body, and apatya means children. Dehapatya-kalatra. Kalatra means wife. Dehapatya-kalatradisu atma-sainyesu Dehapatya-kalatradisv atma-sainyesv asatsv api So, so long we possess all these things... That is explained here: janma, aisvarya, sruta, sri. These are good material possessions: to born in high family, aristocratic family, or brahmana family, ksatriya family. These were considered high parentage, heritage. Nowadays, everyone is sūdra. That is another thing. Nobody can be proud of his birth. So janma and aisvarya. If we possess land, home and children, wife, bank balance, that is called aisvarya. Janmaisvarya-sruta. And education. "I am philosopher. I am scientist. I am this, poet." So education. That is called sruta. Sruta. Especially Vedic knowledge, sruti. So janmaisvarya-sruta-sribhiḥ. And sri, beauty. So unless one is very happy or born in good family; unless one..., he cannot have bodily beauty. Janmaisvarya-sruta-sribhir edhamana, edhamana-madaḥ [SB 1.8.26]. The more we possess these things, then we become intoxicated. It is already illusion. Grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittaiḥ [SB 5.5.8]. So that illusion becomes more and more stronger. And that is called madaḥ.    (More...)

So they are not interested in Krsna consciousness. That is the position at the present moment. Everyone is trying that "I must have a good position in the society." People will say, "Oh, his house is very nice." Or everyone is trying to be educated to acquire money. In the Western countries, these are very prominent, janmaisvarya-sruta. They are not very much interested about the janma, but aisvarya, sruta, they are interested, and sri. So everywhere, more or less, that is the... So these are disqualification for Krsna consciousness. In the materially, they are very good qualification, advancement of material civilization. But here Kunti says, janmaisvarya-sruta-sribhir edhamana-madaḥ puman, naivarhati [SB 1.8.26]: "He does not desire." Na eva, naiva, arhati.    (More...)