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This Bhagavatam was written five thousand years ago, and this story . . . Sukadeva Gosvami said: "I am speaking an old story." That means this incident of Ajamila was not less than fifty thousand years ago

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"This Bhāgavatam was written five thousand years ago, and this story . . . Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: "I am speaking an old story." That means this incident of Ajāmila was not less than fifty thousand years ago"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

This Bhāgavatam was written five thousand years ago, and this story . . . Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: "I am speaking an old story." That means this incident of Ajāmila was not less than fifty thousand years ago. At that time, five thousand years ago, Śukadeva Gosvāmī is narrating "A very old story." And very old sto . . . at least forty thousand, fifty thousand years old. So just see how Vedic civilization was planned from the very . . . time immemorial. Simply by association of illicit sex life so many qualities became null and void.

A prostitute should, I mean to say, comb her hair in that way so that people can understand she is prostitute and she is chaste woman. And this sindūra, the red, red lead, these were the signs. A vidhavā, one who has no husband, they should wear without any skirt, sārī without any skirt, vidhavā, without any bangles, so people will understand, "This woman is without husband," "This woman is prostitute," "This woman is chaste woman," "This woman is not married," "This woman's husband is away from home." So different dresses. Proṣita-bhartṛkā. Proṣita-bhartṛkā. The name was . . . a woman whose husband is away from home, she should not dress very nicely. She should not comb her hair. That is the system. There are so many systems.

So anyway, this, this Brāhmin, although so much qualified, and because he kept one prostitute it is clearly stated, naṣṭa-sadācāra: "All his good qualities became void." All his good qualities. Naṣṭa-sadācāra. Why naṣṭa-sadācāra? Dāsyāḥ saṁsarga-dūṣitaḥ: "Simply by association with a prostitute." Dāsyāḥ saṁsarga-dūṣitaḥ.

This Bhāgavatam was written five thousand years ago, and this story . . . Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: "I am speaking an old story." That means this incident of Ajāmila was not less than fifty thousand years ago. At that time, five thousand years ago, Śukadeva Gosvāmī is narrating "A very old story." And very old sto . . . at least forty thousand, fifty thousand years old. So just see how Vedic civilization was planned from the very . . . time immemorial. Simply by association of illicit sex life so many qualities became null and void. Now he is describing that:

ekadāsau vanaṁ yātaḥ
pitṛ-sandeśakṛd dvijaḥ
ādāya tata āvṛttaḥ
phala-puṣpa-samit-kuśān
(SB 6.1.58)

For offering daily worship fruits, flowers and samit, the kuśa, grass, everything is required for . . . his father ordered him, "Just bring all these things." He went in the forest to collect all these things, and while coming back he saw one śūdra was in embrace with a prostitute, and he happened to pass that way and he stood there and saw, attracted. Young man becomes attracted.

Page Title:This Bhagavatam was written five thousand years ago, and this story . . . Sukadeva Gosvami said: "I am speaking an old story." That means this incident of Ajamila was not less than fifty thousand years ago
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-03-07, 10:38:39
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1