miseries, cause of all

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Sometimes it was quarrel between father and son. Sometimes the father would call, "My dear Prahlada, all right, let me know what you have learned, the best thing, from your teachers." So he replied that sadhu manye 'sura-varya. Asura-varya. He did not address him as "father"; he addressed him, "the best of the asuras," asura-varya. Tat sadhu manye. Sadhu, again. Tat sadhu manye asura-varya dehinam. "So far I have understood, that dehinam, those who are embodied..." Dehinam. Not dehanam. Dehinam, he has said. Dehinam means we are dehi, we are proprietor of this body. I am not this body. So because we accepted this body, we are always in miserable condition. Sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat [SB 7.5.5]. (More...)

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