Our attachment is within this body or in the society or in this country. This is called gṛha-medhī. Gṛha-medhī means one who has made his center of activities only home or nation or community. He has no other aim. Gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām. They are called gṛheṣu. A cultured man, he is also remaining in the house, but his field of activities is different. That is spiritual knowledge.
But here, those who are gṛha-medhī, those who are compact within this body, society and nation, their field of activities is very limited, gṛha-medhinām. Just like a cow. In your country, I do not know, I think you have; in Hawaii I have seen a cow is stuck up with a rope, and it is roaming around that rope, and he is thinking this is the world. That's all. This is the world.
So our knowledge is so poor, a little bound-up rope and I am going round about it, and we are thinking that we know everything. So therefore Suta Gosvāmī says that these people have many subject matter or so-called subject matter of understanding, but a person who is advanced in spiritual knowledge, his subject matter—that will be explained later on—his subject matter is God, Kṛṣṇa. That's all. Try to understand Kṛṣṇa. Don't think Kṛṣṇa is an ordinary person. He has got most extensive activities, and you cannot finish in one life what are the activities of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, in the next verse it is said:
- nidrayā hriyate naktaṁ
- vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ
- diva cārthehayā rājan
- kuṭumba-bharaṇena vā
- (SB 2.1.3)
Now these materialistic men, their activities are described here. Those who have no knowledge of the spiritual world or the spiritual self, simply bodily concept of life like animal, they are gṛha-medhī, compact in this idea. If one can decorate his apartment and decorate his children and wife, he thinks he is the most successful man.
Or similarly, national, nation, if you can have nice road, nice car, nice skyscraper, and all facilities for material happiness, then we think that we are perfect nation. But the thing is, unless you know ātma-tattva, self-realization, you do not know what is your next life.
The next life is there. The next life will depend on your work in this life. You may become very rich nation's son, you may have very good asset, but you are not allowed to stay here. Suppose in America you have got so many nice cities. But we sometimes come to see your cities and opulence, but the fact is that in spite of your development of this national asset, you will not be allowed to stay here. That we forget. And after I leave this place, leave this body, I do not know what is going to happen to me. We are in ignorance, apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ, because we are blind.