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One who takes his birth in a family of yogi, devotee, oh, he has got better chance for cultivating the same spiritual culture from which in his past life he had fallen. Therefore Krsna says, etad dhi durlabhataram

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"one who takes his birth in a family of yogī, devotee, oh, he has got better chance for cultivating the same spiritual culture from which in his past life he had fallen. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, etad dhi durlabhataram"

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So in the pious family or in the rich family, there is chance of degradation. But one who takes his birth in a family of yogī, devotee, oh, he has got better chance for cultivating the same spiritual culture from which in his past life he had fallen. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, etad dhi durlabhataram; "This is very rare, that a man gets his birth, a parent, a yogī." This is very rare.

Nārada says in this Bhāgavata, tatra ko vā and abhadram abhūd amuṣya kim: "So what is there inauspicious for him there? Suppose he has fallen down. There is no inauspicity. But a person who does not approach God, but regularly makes his duties perfectly, what does he get? What does he get, religious? He does not get any benefit of his life. But a person, even he falls down, because he has taken shelter of the Supreme Lord, oh, he is better."

So these things are sanctioned by Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā and all Vedic literature, that there is no harm even one is not able to fulfill his mission properly—half-finished. Still . . . why? Why he is not in loss? The next śloka says. Now, again Lord says that "Either in a brāhmin family, very pious family, or in a rich family, athavā, or, yoginām eva kule bhavati dhīmatām (BG 6.42), yoginām,

in a family where persons are practiced to the yoga system . . ." Yogināṁ dhīmatām. Yoginām. Yoginām means either devotee or meditator or great philosopher—in their family. Yoginām eva kule bhavati dhīmatām. Dhīmatām means very intelligent. These transcendentalist, either philosopher or meditator or great devotees of the Lord, they are considered the, I mean to say, highest top of the human society, dhīmatām. Etad dhi durlabhataraṁ loke janma yad īdṛśam.

Now, out of the three, either he gets his birth in a brāhmin family or in a rich family or in a family where people are . . . the members, members are highly advanced in the yoga, so Kṛṣṇa says the third one, third one is to be considered more fortunate, third one, who has got his birth in the family of a yogī. Because one who has got his birth in a rich family, he may be misled. And naturally it so happens. When a man gets riches, silver spoon in mouth, he thinks, "Oh, I have got so much money, my paternal property. Let me enjoy it." Oh. So sometimes he becomes a drunkard, a prostitute hunter, a, I mean to say, rogue. He becomes.

Similarly, in a brāhmiṇ family also . . . just like we have seen in India, there are many persons who are born in a big, I mean to say, very pious family. But because he has taken his birth in a pious family, he thinks, "I am brāhmiṇ. Oh, what I have to do? I am very pious family." They mistake in that way. So they degrade.

So in the pious family or in the rich family, there is chance of degradation. But one who takes his birth in a family of yogī, devotee, oh, he has got better chance for cultivating the same spiritual culture from which in his past life he had fallen. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, etad dhi durlabhataram; "This is very rare, that a man gets his birth, a parent, a yogī." This is very rare.

But He recommends, I mean, He eulogizes this sort of family that . . . what is the facility of this family? Now, Lord says, tatra taṁ buddhi-saṁyogaṁ labhate paurva-dehikam (BG 6.43): "In his previous birth, in his previous body, whatever he cultured, now he begins to remember." He begins to remember. I may tell you that those who have taken this Society, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, very seriously, they are not ordinary person. They must have had such culture in their previous life. Now they are again trying to revive that thing.

Page Title:One who takes his birth in a family of yogi, devotee, oh, he has got better chance for cultivating the same spiritual culture from which in his past life he had fallen. Therefore Krsna says, etad dhi durlabhataram
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-12, 04:59:49
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1