Kapiladeva, when she . . . when He heard from His mother so many nice questions, "How to be delivered from this material bondage, envelopment?" . . . sammoha.
- atha me deva sammoham
- apākraṣṭuṁ tvam arhasi
- yo 'vagraho 'haṁ mametīty
- etasmin yojitas tvayā
- (SB 3.25.10)
This verse we have discussed. "I have taken shelter unto You . . ." This is the process. The mother is not ordering the son. It doesn't matter whether he is son or somebody else; when one is interested in uttama . . . tasmād jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam. Śreya and preya, there are two things. Śreya and preya. Just like children, they like to play. That is called preya, preya. Very nice. But śreya means go to school and take education for future improvement of life. That is called śreya. So human being should be interested in śreya, not in preya. That is not human life. Preya means immediately gives me some sense pleasure, "Oh, it is very nice." No. That is human life. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna. We require these things. We require to eat something for maintaining the body. But not that we shall be accustomed to eat very palatable things. No. That is not good. Bhāla nā khāibe bhāla nā paribe (CC Antya 6.236). Caitanya Mahāprabhu advised His disciples, "Never eat very palatable foodstuff. Never talk these village talks." Ordinary novel, literature, newspaper, He forbade.
Fortunately, in our Society there is no newspaper. You may be surprised that, "How is that, in modern age, especially these Europeans and Americans, they do not take any interest in newspaper?" In their country, if one does not get newspaper, it is horrible. It is horrible. Newspaper is so popular in the Western countries. There are so many newspapers, and each newspaper is publishing three, four times editions. But they are selling.