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He can simply engage himself in that lusty desire for material existence. Durapurena kamena. In this connection there is a very instructive story - it is fact - that the Emperor Akbar, he enquired from his minister

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"He can simply engage himself in that lusty desire for material existence. Durāpūreṇa kāmena. In this connection there is a very instructive story—it is fact—that the Emperor Akbar, he enquired from his minister"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Because ninety years he has been so much attached to materialistic way of life, naturally the balance ten years, śeṣam, he cannot utilize any other way. He can simply engage himself in that lusty desire for material existence. Durāpūreṇa kāmena. In this connection there is a very instructive story—it is fact—that the Emperor Akbar, he enquired from his minister.

So our lusty desires, sense gratification, cannot be satisfied even throughout the whole life. The account is being given of the whole life, hundred years. So out of hundred years, fifty years wasted by sleeping, twenty years wasted by playing like boy and young man, and twenty years as old man, diseased, invalidated, and balance ten years. Because ninety years he has been so much attached to materialistic way of life, naturally the balance ten years, śeṣam, he cannot utilize any other way. He can simply engage himself in that lusty desire for material existence. Durāpūreṇa kāmena. In this connection there is a very instructive story—it is fact—that the Emperor Akbar, he enquired from his minister . . . he had one very big minister, I forget just his name.

Page Title:He can simply engage himself in that lusty desire for material existence. Durapurena kamena. In this connection there is a very instructive story - it is fact - that the Emperor Akbar, he enquired from his minister
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