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Adhira means one who does not know anything. Just like cats and dogs, jumping, that's all. That is called adhira. So adhira and dhira, there are two classes of men

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Adhīrā means one who does not know anything. Just like cats and dogs, jumping, that's all. That is called adhīrā. So adhīrā and dhīrā, there are two classes of men.

Prabhupāda: Dhīrā, dhīrā means "advanced," those who are sober, not animals but human beings. There are two kinds of living entities: dhīrā and adhīrā. Dhīrā means "sober," one who thinks, "What is my condition? What I am? I am this body or I am something beyond this body? What I am meant for? Why I have come here? What is God? What I am?" So many things, they are a subject matter to think. That is called dhīrā. And adhīrā means one who does not know anything. Just like cats and dogs, jumping, that's all. That is called adhīrā. So adhīrā and dhīrā, there are two classes of men. Here it is mentioned dhīrā:

deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ
dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ
(SB 6.1.14)

If you want to be free from the reaction of sinful life . . . because these, the example of this child in the womb of the mother being killed, this is due to our ignorance, sinful life. He is put into that torturing condition. So:

kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api
veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ
(SB 6.1.14)

Just like dry grass on the field, if you want to cleanse, you simply set fire. You simply set fire, and gradually, everything will be cleansed. If you take one's—what is called—broomstick to cleanse, it will take so much time, but if you set fire, then everything will be cleansed. Veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Analaḥ. Analaḥ means "fire," if you set fire. That is done actually. To cleanse one field, agricultural field—in India they do so—that fire produces some . . . what is called?

Devotee: Chemical?

Prabhupāda: Chemical? It is . . .

Devotee: Ash, ashes.

Prabhupāda: No, no, steriliz . . .

Devotee: Fertilizer.

Prabhupāda: Fertilizer, yes. Actually it creates potassium . . . what is called? They say some chemical?

Devotee: Potassium nitrate?

Prabhupāda: Potassium nitrate, yes. By them. So here also, deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ: we are creating, creating so many sinful reaction of life by our body, deha, and vāg, by words. By our words also we create so many sinful life. Suppose you are innocent, and if I call you by bad names and use my words without any restriction, "You rascal fool" and so on, so on, so that is also sinful.