So ugra-jateh means demonic family, passionate. Ugra. There are three qualities within this material world. Therefore it is said guna-mayi. Daivi hy esa guna-mayi [Bg. 7.14]. Guna-mayi means three gunas, three modes of material nature: sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna. So our mind is jumping. Everyone knows the nature of the mind, sometimes accepting one thing, again rejecting it, sankalpa-vikalpa. This is the quality of the mind or nature of the mind. Sometimes the mind is jumping over sattva-guna, sometimes on the rajo-guna, and sometime on the tamo-guna. In this way we are getting different types of mentality. In this way, at the time of death the mentality which is just at the moment of leaving this body will carry me to a different body of sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. This is the way of transmigration of the soul. Therefore we have to train up the mind until we get the another body. That is the art of living. So if you train up your mind simply to think of Krsna then you are safe. Otherwise there is chance of accidents. Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram [Bg. 8.6]. At the time of leaving this body, if we have not practiced the mind to fix up at the lotus feet of Krsna, then there is... [break] A particular type of body we get.

Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh [Bg. 4.2]. Actually, sastra is not for the loafer class. For highly learned brahmanas and highly elevated ksatriyas. And the vaisyas and the sudras, they are not expected to become very learned in sastra, but, being directed by proper brahmana and ksatriya, they are also perfect. The first perfect class, munayo, as it is said, sattvaikatana gatayo munayo, "Great sages..." Generally, "great sages" means brahmanas, Vaisnavas. They are situated on the sattva-guna by devotional service. Rajas, tamo-guna cannot touch them. Nasta-prayesv abhadresu nityam bhagavata-sevaya [SB 1.2.18]. The bhadra and abhadra, good and bad... So the rajo-guna and tamo-guna is bad, and sattva-guna is good. If we are situated, as it is said, sattvaikatana-gatayo... If you are always situated on the sattva-guna, then everything is clear to be done. Sattva-guna means prakasa. Everything is clear, full knowledge. And rajo-guna is not clear. The example is given: just like the wood. There is fire, but the first symptom of fire, wood, you'll find smoke. When you set fire in the wood, first of all smoke comes. So smoke... First of all wood, then smoke, then fire. And from fire, when you engage the fire for fire sacrifice, that is the ultimate. Everything coming from the same source, from earth... The wood is coming from wood, the smoke is coming from smoke, the fire is coming... And fire, when engaged in fire sacrificesvahathen it is proper use of fire. If one stays in the wood platform, that is completely forgetfulness. When one stays in the smoke platform, there is little light. When one is staying in fire platform, then full light. And when the light is engaged in Krsna's service, that is perfect. We have to understand like that.

Vaisnava is always humble, meek and humble. That is Vaisnava. Vaisnava is powerful, but still he is very meek and humble. So here is the sign. Prahlada Maharaja is so qualified that immediately Lord Nrsimhadeva put His hand on the head: "My dear child, you have suffered so much. Now be pacified." This is Prahlada Maharaja's positionimmediately accepted by the Lord. But he's thinking, "I am so lowborn in the family of passionate family." Ugra-jateh. He's not proud that "Now Nrsimhadeva has touched my head. Ah. Who is like me? I am the greatest personality." This is not Vaisnava. Sanatana Gosvami when he approached Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he presented himself, nica jati nica karma nica sangi: "I am born of very low grade family, and my duties are also very low grade, and my association are also very low grade." So Sanatana Gosvami was born in a very respectable brahmana family, but because he accepted the service of Muhammadan king, actually he lost his all brahminical culture. He did not lose, but superficially it appeared because he was mixing with the Muhammadans, eating with them, sitting with them, talking with them. But he gave up. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha. He understood, "What I am doing? I am committing suicide." Janiya suniya visa khainu. Narottama dasa Thakura says that "I am taking poison knowingly." Unknowingly one may take poison, but if knowingly one takes poison, that is very regrettable. So Narottama dasa Thakura said,

So we are trying to preach this Krsna consciousness movement all over the world, but still, if people do not take to this Krsna consciousness movement, then he is drinking poison knowingly. This is the position. He is drinking poison. That's a fact. It is not that we are imagining something, eulogizing.(?) They are charging us, "Brainwash." Yes, it is brainwash. It is... All the dirty things, stools, are there in the brain, and we are trying to wash them. That is our...

The vidhunoti, this word, is there. Vidhunoti means washing. Washing. As you are hearing the message of Srimad Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita, the process is vidhunoti, washing. Actually, it is brainwashingbut for good. Washing is not bad. (laughter) That these rascals, they do not know. They are thinking, "Oh, you are making me purified? Oh, you are very dangerous." This is their... Murkhayopadeso hi prakopaya na santaye: "To a rascal, if you give good advice, he becomes angry." Murkhayopadeso hi prakopaya na santaye. How is it? Payah-panam bhujanganam kevalam visa-vardhanam. A snake-quality man is very dangerous. Canakya Pandita has said,

"There are two envious living entities. One is a snake, black snake, and one is a human being with the quality of black snake." He cannot see any good thing. Sarpah krurah. The snake is envious. Without any fault he bites. A snake is there on the street, and if you happen to pass by him he becomes so angry, immediately he bites. So this is the snake's nature. Similarly, there are persons like the snake. Without any fault they will accuse you. They are also snake. So Canakya Pandita says that "This black snake is less harmful than the man snake." Why? "Now, this black snake, by chanting some mantra or by some herb can bring him under your control. But this man snake you cannot. It is not possible."

Padam padam yad vipadam na tesam. Vipadam means dangerous position. Padam padam, every step in this material worldna tesam, not for the devotee. Padam padam yad vipadam na tesam. This is Srimad-Bhagavatam. Even from literary point of view so exalted. So Prahlada Maharaja... Just like Kaviraja Gosvami. He is writing Caitanya-caritamrta, and presenting himself, he says,

Like that. The author of Caitanya-caritamrta, he presents himself: "The lighter than the worm in the stool." Purisera kita haite muni se laghistha. And in Caitanya-lila, Jagai-Madhai, two brothers are supposed to be most sinful, but he has also They were also delivered. Kaviraja Gosvami says, "I am more sinful than the Jagai-Madhai."

"I am so low grade that if somebody takes my name, whatever little pious action is there is lost." In this way he's presenting. And Sanatana Gosvami, presenting himself, nica jati nica karma nica sanga... They are not artificial. A Vaisnava actually thinks like that. That is Vaisnava. He is never proud of... And just opposite number: "Oh, I have got this. I have got this. Who is equal to me? I am so rich. I am so this and that." That is the distinction.