controlled by demigods
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Imported quote 18727 Actually, you have got obligation, so many obligation. All the demigods, they are supplying different energies, and we are maintained by that energy. Every part of our body is controlled by some particular demigod. Even the eyelids, the twinkling of the eyelids, that is also being controlled. We are supremely under control. So therefore we have got certain obligation. Just like we are controlled by the government. So we have got some obligation also to pay tax to the government, the income tax. So similarly, we have got obligation to the devatas, the demigods, the rsis, the saintly sages, because we are receiving knowledge from them. Just like Vyasadeva, he has given us this Srimad-Bhagavatam. We are reading. We are getting knowledge, perfect knowledge. Then we are obliged to our surrounding living entities, neighbors, countrymen and others. Devarsi-bhūtapta. The animals also. We are taking service from the animals. The cow is giving milk. The camel is carrying our load. The ass is carrying our load. So many animals... Devarsi-bhūtapta-nrnam, general, people in general, we are obliged. So obligations, there are so many. Devarsi-bhūtapta-nrnam pitṝnam [SB 11.5.41]. Pitrs, our forefathers, the dynasty or the family in which we have taken birth.
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