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<div class="heading">While you are discharging your devotional service even being immature you fall down, it doesn't matter even if you fall down. Bhajann apakvo 'tha. Apakva means nonmature. Patet tato yadi. He falls down from the path of devotional service. Yatra kva va abhadram abhud amusya kim: "What is the loss there?" And those who are sticking to their occupational duty... Ko vartha apto 'bhajatam sva-dharmatah, "If one, one sticks to his occupational duty, but he does not surrender to Krsna, does not take to devo..., what does he gain?"
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.9.14 -- Melbourne, April 13, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.9.14 -- Melbourne, April 13, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So sva-dharma means, intelligent class means they are interested in philosophy, in religion, in uplifting the human society to the proper position. That is intelligent class. And administrator class means they are interested in giving protection to the people. Now it is under nationalism. And give them protection from the enemies, from thieves, from rogues. That is the duty of the ksatriya. Ksat. Ksatta means injury, and tra means one who protects or liberates. "One who protects a human being from being hurt by others" -- that is called ksatriya. And brahmana means one who knows Brahman, the Absolute Truth. And vaisya means those who know visampati, the economic problem. And sudra means laborer. So each word has got meaning. So everyone has got his particular type of occupation, either as intelligent class of men, or as the administrator class of men, or as vaisyas, traders, or merchants, or as a laborer. Everyone has got.</p>
<p>So Narada Muni advised, tyaktva sva-dharmam: "You give up all these occupational duties according to the modes of nature. Tyaktva. You take immediately shelter of Krsna." Krsna, as Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). Sarva-dharman means all kinds of this dharma: brahmana's dharma, or the ksatriya's dharma, or the... Give up all this. Then? Mam ekam saranam. So Narada also says that same thing. That is the characteristic of devotee. What the Lord says, the devotee will say. He will not make any addition, alteration, and amalgamate and comment. No. He will say the same thing. Krsna says that "You surrender unto Me, giving up all your occupational duty." Narada also says that "Suppose one gives up his occupational duty and surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead," tyaktva sva-dharmam caranambujam harer ([[Vanisource:SB 1.5.17|SB 1.5.17]]), "takes shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality." All right. It is very good. "But I am afraid if I fall down." Narada says "It is all right." Bhajann apakvo. While you are discharging your devotional service even being immature you fall down, it doesn't matter even if you fall down. Bhajann apakvo 'tha. Apakva means nonmature. Patet tato yadi. He falls down from the path of devotional service. Yatra kva va abhadram abhud amusya kim: "What is the loss there?" And those who are sticking to their occupational duty... Ko vartha apto 'bhajatam sva-dharmatah, "If one, one sticks to his occupational duty, but he does not surrender to Krsna, does not take to devo..., what does he gain?"</p>
<p>Here one who takes to Krsna consciousness and falls down, for him, he says, "What is inauspicity there?" That means there is auspicity still, although he has fallen. And one who is sticking to his original occupational duty but does not take to Krsna consciousness, what does he gain? This is the advice. What does he gain? "Oh, I am sticking to my own principles." What is your nonsense principle? After your death, after this body all principle will be finished. That's all. And you could not take the opportunity of taking to Krsna consciousness. So what is your gain? And this man who has taken to Krsna consciousness, rejecting all so-called occupational duties and religious principles, he gains. There is no inauspicity because he had fallen. Why? Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, sucinam srimatam gehe yoga-bhrastah sanjayate ([[Vanisource:BG 6.41|BG 6.41]]). At least it is guaranteed that you get next life a human form of life and in a very well-to-do condition, either in rich family or in the family of a very high class brahmana or Vaisnava. So therefore he is not losing anything. And the other man who is sticking to his own occupational duty and does not take to Krsna consciousness, he is losing everything because after this body nobody knows where he is going. Either going to be a cat or dog or tree or where, he does not know.</p>
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