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Rajas tamah prakritayah samashila bhajanti bai
Pitri bhuta prajeshadeen Shriha aishwarya praja ipshavah.
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Rajas—the mode of passion, tamah—the mode of ignorance, prakritayah—of that mentality, shamashila—of the same categories, bhajanti—do worship, bai—actually, pitri—the forefathers, bhuta—other living beings, prajeshadeen—controller of the cosmic administration, shriah—enrichment, aishwarya—wealth and power, praja—aristocracy, isshavah—so desiring.
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Those who are in the modes of passsion and ignorance and persons of the same category do worship the forms of forefathers, other living beings and the deities of the cosmic administration urged by a desire to be materially benefitted with women, wealth and aristocracy.
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There is no need of worshiping demigods of whatsoever category for those who are serious about going back to Godhead. In the Bhagwat Geeta it is clearly said that those who are mad after material enjoyment they only approach the different demigods for temporary benefit which are meant for men with poor fund of knowledge. (BG 7.20-23) We should never desire to increase the depth of material enjoyment. Material enjoyment should be accepted only up to the point of bare necessities of life and not more or less than that. To accept more material enjoyment means to bind up one self more and more in the miseries of the material existence. More wealth, more women and false aristocracy are some of the demands of the materially disposed man because he has no information of the benefit derived out of Vishnu worship. By Vishnu worship one can derive benefit for this life as well as for the life after death. Forgetting these principles, foolish people who are after more wealth, more wives and more children do worship the demigods of different dimentions. The aim of life is just to end the miseries of life and not to increase them.
#$p#For material enjoyment there is no need of approaching the demigods. Because the demigods are but servants of the Lord. As such they are duty-bound to supply necessaries of life in the form of water, light, air etc. which are essential parts of living conditions. #b#One should work hard and worship the Supreme Lord by the fruits of one's hard labour for existence and that should be the motto of life#/b#. One should be careful about his occupational service with faith in God in the proper way and that will lead one gradually on the progressive march to Back to Godhead.
#$p#Lord Sri Krishna when He was personally present at Braja-dhama He stopped the worship of the #b#Indra#/b# demigod and advised the residents of Braja to worship their business and to have faith in God. Worshipping the multi demigods for material gain is practically a perversity of religion. This sort of religious activities have been condemned in the very beginning of the Bhagwat as #b#Kaitaba Dharma#/b#. There is only one religion in the world to be followed by one and all and that is the #b#Bhagwat Dharma#/b# or the religion which teaches to worship The Personality of Godhead and no one else.
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#dd#sama-śīlā bhajanti vai#/dd#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=rajaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#rajaḥ#/i# — the mode of passion; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tamaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tamaḥ#/i# — the mode of ignorance; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=prakṛtayaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#prakṛtayaḥ#/i# — of that mentality; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sama&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sama-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=śīlāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#śīlāḥ#/i# — of the same categories; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=bhajanti&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#bhajanti#/i# — do worship; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=vai&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#vai#/i# — actually; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=pitṛ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#pitṛ#/i# — the forefathers; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=bhūta&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#bhūta#/i# — other living beings; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=prajeśa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#prajeśa-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ādīn&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ādīn#/i# — controllers of cosmic administration; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=śriyā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#śriyā#/i# — enrichment; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=aiśvarya&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#aiśvarya#/i# — wealth and power; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=prajā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#prajā#/i# — progeny; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=īpsavaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#īpsavaḥ#/i# — so desiring.
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Those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance worship the forefathers, other living beings and the demigods who are in charge of cosmic activities, for they are urged by a desire to be materially benefited with women, wealth, power and progeny.
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There is no need to worship demigods of whatsoever category if one is serious about going back to Godhead. In the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# (BG 7.20-23) it is clearly said that those who are mad after material enjoyment approach the different demigods for temporary benefits, which are meant for men with a poor fund of knowledge. We should never desire to increase the depth of material enjoyment. Material enjoyment should be accepted only up to the point of the bare necessities of life and not more or less than that. To accept more material enjoyment means to bind oneself more and more to the miseries of material existence. More wealth, more women and false aristocracy are some of the demands of the materially disposed man because he has no information of the benefit derived from Viṣṇu worship. By Viṣṇu worship one can derive benefit in this life as well as in life after death. Forgetting these principles, foolish people who are after more wealth, more wives and more children worship various demigods. The aim of life is to end the miseries of life and not to increase them.
#$p#For material enjoyment there is no need to approach the demigods. The demigods are but servants of the Lord. As such, they are duty-bound to supply necessities of life in the form of water, light, air, etc. #i#One should work hard and worship the Supreme Lord by the fruits of one's hard labor for existence, and that should be the motto of life#/i#. One should be careful to execute occupational service with faith in God in the proper way, and that will lead one gradually on the progressive march back to Godhead.
#$p#Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, when He was personally present at Vrajadhāma, stopped the worship of the demigod Indra and advised the residents of Vraja to worship by their business and to have faith in God. Worshiping the multidemigods for material gain is practically a perversity of religion. This sort of religious activity has been condemned in the very beginning of the #i#Bhāgavata#/i#m as #i#kaitava-dharma#/i#. There is only one religion in the world to be followed by one and all, and that is the #i#Bhāgavata-dharma#/i#, or the religion which teaches one to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead and no one else.
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