विघातः श्रेयसः पाप लोकयोरुभयोः कृतः ॥३७॥
ṛṇais tribhir amuktÄnÄm
amÄ«mÄá¹sita-karmaṇÄm
vighÄtaḥ Å›reyasaḥ pÄpa
lokayor ubhayoḥ kṛtaḥ
ṛṇaiḥ - from the debts; tribhiḥ - three; amuktÄnÄm - of persons not freed; amÄ«mÄá¹sita - not considering; karmaṇÄm - the path of duty; vighÄtaḥ - ruin; Å›reyasaḥ - of the path of good fortune; pÄpa - O most sinful (NÄrada Muni); lokayoḥ - of the worlds; ubhayoḥ - both; ká¹›taḥ - done.
PrajÄpati Daká¹£a said: My sons were not at all freed from their three debts. Indeed, they did not properly consider their obligations. O NÄrada Muni, O personality of sinful action, you have obstructed their progress toward good fortune in this world and the next because they are still indebted to the saintly persons, the demigods and their father.
As soon as a brÄhmaṇa takes birth, he assumes three kinds of debts — debts to great saints, debts to the demigods and debts to his father. The son of a brÄhmaṇa must undergo celibacy (brahmacarya) to clear his debts to the saintly persons, he must perform ritualistic ceremonies to clear his debts to the demigods, and he must beget children to become free from his debts to his father. PrajÄpati Daká¹£a argued that although the renounced order is recommended for liberation, one cannot attain liberation unless one fulfills his obligations to the demigods, the saints and his father. Since Daká¹£a’s sons had not liberated themselves from these three debts, how could NÄrada Muni have led them to the renounced order of life? Apparently, PrajÄpati Daká¹£a did not know the final decision of the Å›Ästras. As stated in ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam (11.5.41):
devará¹£i-bhÅ«tÄpta-nṛṇÄá¹ pitá¹á¹‡Äá¹
na kiá¹…karo nÄyam ṛṇī ca rÄjan
sarvÄtmanÄ yaḥ Å›araṇaá¹ Å›araṇyaá¹
gato mukundaá¹ parihá¹›tya kartam
Everyone is indebted to the demigods, to living entities in general, to his family, to the pitÄs and so on, but if one fully surrenders to Kṛṣṇa, Mukunda, who can give one liberation, even if one performs no yajñas, one is freed from all debts. Even if one does not repay his debts, he is freed from all debts if he renounces the material world for the sake of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose lotus feet are the shelter of everyone. This is the verdict of the Å›Ästra. Therefore NÄrada Muni was completely right in instructing the sons of PrajÄpati Daká¹£a to renounce this material world immediately and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Unfortunately, PrajÄpati Daká¹£a, the father of the HaryaÅ›vas and SavalÄÅ›vas, did not understand the great service rendered by NÄrada Muni. Daká¹£a therefore addressed him as pÄpa (the personality of sinful activities) and asÄdhu (a nonsaintly person). Since NÄrada Muni was a great saint and Vaiṣṇava, he tolerated all such accusations from PrajÄpati Daká¹£a. He merely performed his duty as a Vaiṣṇava by delivering all the sons of PrajÄpati Daká¹£a, enabling them to return home, back to Godhead.
