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Imported quote 19133 So this Ajamila became suci, brahmana. Then guru, agni. Guru, the spiritual master; agni, the fire; and atithi. Atithi means uninvited guest, hospitality. If somebody comes at your home without your invitation, he is called atithi. Tithi means particular time and date. But a person arrives at your home without any invitation on particular time and date, he is called atithi. Atithi-satkara. This is also one of the items of Vedic culture. Atithi-satkara. So the sannyasis especially, they are begging from door to door. So they have no fixed-up program in which door he will go on which date. No. Anywhere they approach. Therefore atithi means generally the brahmacari and the sannyasi. Brahmacari is also begging alms from door to door, and a sannyasi also allowed. But door to door does not mean that he would collect more than is necessity. But he does not cook. A sannyasi goes to a pure householder's life, er, home, because generally in a brahmana's house or ksatriya or vaisya... But not to a sūdra. This is restriction. Why? Because the three upper classes, brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, especially the brahmana-they are considered the topmost-they have got Visnu worship at home. Still in all brahmanas' family, ancestral salagrama-sila is worshiped in a brahmana family. So also in ksatriya family also. So these sannyasis go to a brahmana family because it is known fact the brahmanas are engaged in worshiping Visnu.
(More...) The typical example of the beast of burden is the ass. This humble beast is made to work very hard by his master. (1) The mūḍhas are those who are grossly foolish, like hard-working beasts of burden. They want to enjoy the fruits of their labor by themselves, and so do not want to part with them for the Supreme. The typical example of the beast of burden is the ass. This humble beast is made to work very hard by his master. The ass does not really know for whom he works so hard day and night. He remains satisfied by filling his stomach with a bundle of grass, sleeping for a while under fear of being beaten by his master, and satisfying his sex appetite at the risk of being repeatedly kicked by the opposite party. The ass sings poetry and philosophy sometimes, but this braying only disturbs others. This is the position of the foolish fruitive worker who does not know for whom he should work. He does not know that karma (action) is meant for yajna (sacrifice).
(More...) Most often, those who work very hard day and night to clear the burden of self-created duties say that they have no time to hear of the immortality of the living being. To such mūḍhas, material gains, which are destructible, are life's all in all-despite the fact that the mūḍhas enjoy only a very small fraction of the fruit of labor. Sometimes they spend sleepless days and nights for fruitive gain, and although they may have ulcers or indigestion, they are satisfied with practically no food; they are simply absorbed in working hard day and night for the benefit of illusory masters. Ignorant of their real master, the foolish workers waste their valuable time serving mammon. Unfortunately, they never surrender to the supreme master of all masters, nor do they take time to hear of Him from the proper sources. The swine who eat the soil do not care to accept sweetmeats made of sugar and ghee. Similarly, the foolish worker will untiringly continue to hear of the sense-enjoyable tidings of the flickering mundane force that moves the material world.
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