Disease of the heart (Lectures)

Expressions researched:
"disease in the heart" |"disease of heart" |"disease of lust within the heart" |"disease of the heart" |"heart disease"

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Inauspicious things means the heart disease for sense enjoyment.

Lecture on SB 1.2.18 -- Los Angeles, August 21, 1972:

Abhadra means dirty things, inauspicious things. What is that inauspicious thing? Inauspicious things means the heart disease for sense enjoyment; this is inauspicious, Different varieties, abhadreṣu. There are three modes of material nature. And multiply it three, mix it again, it becomes nine, and again multiplied, nine by nine, it becomes eighty-one. So these, this... Originally the three... Just like three colors, yellow, red and blue. These three colors, you mix... Those who are artists, those who know the color display... Simply you mix three colors in different way, and it becomes varieties of color. So our heart disease, dirty thing, varieties of sense enjoyment, varieties. So heart is full with varieties of sense enjoyment. Therefore by nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā (SB 1.2.18), by daily, regular worshiping Bhāgavatam, we become free from the dirty things.