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Spiritual cultivation is not exactly meant for the sannyāsī’s or vānaprastha's it is meant for everyone. Everybody, just like our spiritual method we are also, we are women, children, men but the purpose is different. In this temple the children are being trained up for spiritual understanding.
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Pradyumna: ''śrotavyādīni''—subject matters for hearing; ''rājendra''—O Emperor; ''nṛṇām''—of human society; ''santi''—there are; ''sahasraśaḥ''—hundreds and thousands; ''apaśyatām''—of the blind; ''ātma-tattvam''—knowledge of self, the ultimate truth; ''gṛheṣu''—at home; ''gṛha-medhinām''—of persons too materially engrossed.

Translation: "Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many things as subject matter for hearing in the human society, O Emperor."

Prabhupāda: So, ''apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ'', ''apaśyatām'', a means not, ''paśyatām'' refers to one who sees, so ''apaśyatām'' means one who cannot see. Who are they? ''Gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām'', ''gṛheṣu'' at home, in this verse, ''gṛheṣu'' at home . . . ''gṛha-medhinām'', ''gṛha-gṛhamedhī'' means, animals also actually, there are human beings living with husband, wife, children but living like animals therefore ''gṛhamedhī''. And then there is ''gṛhastha'', ''gṛhastha'' means those who are living at home and exactly like others, ''brahmacārī'' or ''vānaprastha'' or ''sannyāsī''. According to these divisions there are four divisions of social order and four divisions of spiritual order, eight.

This is called ''varṇa-aśrama'', ''aśrama means'', now this word is very . . . (indistinct) . . . ''aśrama'', ''aśrama'' means a place where spiritual cultivation is accepted, that is called ''aśrama''. So everyone is living at home, ''gṛha'', ''gṛha'' means householder at home but one is ''gṛhastha'' and the other is ''gṛhamedhī'' there is a distinction. One is living at home not in the renounced order with his wife, children, friends, so, but the aim is spiritual cultivation he is called ''gṛhastha'', ''aśrama''. Spiritual cultivation is not exactly meant for the ''sannyāsī’s'' or ''vānaprastha's'' it is meant for everyone.

Everybody, just like our spiritual method we are also, we are women, children, men but the purpose is different. In this temple the children are being trained up for spiritual understanding. The women . . . (indistinct) . . . of our society they are also there but their aim is spiritual understanding that is the difference and the same thing in next house they are also living with husband, wife, children but their aim is different. That is the difference between ''gṛhamedhī'' and ''gṛhastha'', there are two words. There is no difference between the husband, wife, children, friends but everything is all right provided there is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore Bhaktivinode Ṭhākura says kṛṣṇe . . . (indistinct)

Therefore Bhaktivinode Ṭhākura he was a ''gṛhastha'' he was living, he was magistrate, he was living with his wife, children, family but at the same time he was interested in spiritual cultivation of life. Regularly when he was a magistrate, so he used to come back home at 5 o’clock then immediately he would take some food after one hour reading and go to bed for the evening. And he would rise up at 12 o’clock at night and used to write books from 12 o’clock up to 4 o’clock that is . . . (indistinct) . . . so he was a ''gṛhastha'', very responsible post, government officer, magistrate but his life was dedicated for spiritual cultivation he is ideal ''gṛhastha''. All Caitanya Mahāprabhu's associates . . . (indistinct)

:''śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya''
:''prabhu-nityānanda''
:''śrī-advaita gadādhara''
:''śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda''

All of them were ''gṛhastha's'', family men, Caitanya Mahāprabhu himself was married twice. His first wife died, he married for the second time so to become a householder is not . . . (indistinct) . . . if we understand. Whether one is a householder or in the renounced order the aim is just how we can become Kṛṣṇa conscious.

So here one distinct word is used, ''gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām'', ''gṛhamedhī'' maybe later on this word means . . . (indistinct) . . . and at the same time envious. So ''gṛhamedhī'' they are envious . . . (indistinct) . . . it is very specific in your country. There is sign board, "beware of the dog." That means he is envious because . . . (indistinct) . . . if any outsider will come, the outsider is also envious. So they are living in the house but envious so much but so far our fence is concerned we don’t keep a signboard, “beware of the dog don’t come here.”Please come, that is the difference. We are living within these four walls, home for our householder's home, but the difference is that we are not envious . . . (indistinct) . . . just try to see the distinction between ''gṛhamedhī'' and ''gṛhastha'' . . . (indistinct)

If one is complete in knowledge about Kṛṣṇa what is there to be envious of others? We welcome others because our distinction is these people have forgotten, ''apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 2.1.2|SB 2.1.2]]). Those who are envious and living very decently with car, with nicely decorated home, wife, children but at heart they are so polluted they are envious, don’t come here . . . because of dog . . . this is called ''gṛhamedhī'' and ''gṛhastha'' means they are also living with husband, wife and children but they are anxious that people will come and will hear about God.