एवं त्वं निरनुक्रोशो बालानां मतिभिद्धरेः ।
पार्षदमध्ये चरसि यशोहा निरपत्रपः ॥३८॥

evaṠtvaṠniranukrośo
bÄlÄnÄá¹ mati-bhid dhareḥ
pÄrá¹£ada-madhye carasi
yaÅ›o-hÄ nirapatrapaḥ

 evam - thus; tvam - you (NÄrada); niranukroÅ›aḥ - without compassion; bÄlÄnÄm - of innocent, inexperienced boys; mati-bhit - contaminating the consciousness; hareḥ - of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pÄrá¹£ada-madhye - among the personal associates; carasi - travel; yaÅ›aḥ-hÄ - defaming the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nirapatrapaḥ - (although you do not know what you are doing, you are executing sinful activities) without shame.


Text

PrajÄpati Daká¹£a continued: Thus committing violence against other living entities and yet claiming to be an associate of Lord Viṣṇu, you are defaming the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You needlessly created a mentality of renunciation in innocent boys, and therefore you are shameless and devoid of compassion. How could you travel with the personal associates of the Supreme Lord?

Purport

This mentality of PrajÄpati Daká¹£a still continues even today. When young boys join the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, their fathers and so-called guardians are very angry at the propounder of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement because they think that their sons have been unnecessarily induced to deprive themselves of the material enjoyments of eating, drinking and merrymaking. KarmÄ«s, fruitive workers, think that one should fully enjoy his present life in this material world and also perform some pious activities to be promoted to higher planetary systems for further enjoyment in the next life. A yogÄ«, however, especially a bhakti-yogÄ«, is callous to the opinions of this material world. He is not interested in traveling to the higher planetary systems of the demigods to enjoy a long life in an advanced materialistic civilization. As stated by PrabodhÄnanda SarasvatÄ«, kaivalyaá¹ narakÄyate tridaÅ›a-pÅ«r ÄkÄÅ›a-puá¹£pÄyate: for a devotee, merging into the Brahman existence is hellish, and life in the higher planetary systems of the demigods is a will-o’-the-wisp, a phantasmagoria with no real existence at all. A pure devotee is not interested in yogic perfection, travel to higher planetary systems, or oneness with Brahman. He is interested only in rendering service to the Personality of Godhead. Since PrajÄpati Daká¹£a was a karmÄ«, he could not appreciate the great service NÄrada Muni had rendered his eleven thousand sons. Instead, he accused NÄrada Muni of being sinful and charged that because NÄrada Muni was associated with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord would also be defamed. Thus Daká¹£a criticized that NÄrada Muni was an offender to the Lord although he was known as an associate of the Lord.