अदृष्ट्वान्तं भुवो यूयं बालिशा बत पालकाः ॥६॥
तथैकपुरुषं राष्ट्रं बिलं चादृष्टनिर्गमम् ।
बहुरूपां स्त्रियं चापि पुमांसं पुंश्चलीपतिम् ॥७॥
नदीमुभयतो वाहां पञ्चपञ्चाद्भुतं गृहम् ।
क्वचिद्धंसं चित्रकथं क्षौरपव्यं स्वयं भ्रमि ॥८॥
uvÄca cÄtha haryaÅ›vÄḥ
kathaá¹ sraká¹£yatha vai prajÄḥ
adṛṣá¹vÄntaá¹ bhuvo yÅ«yaá¹
bÄliÅ›Ä bata pÄlakÄḥ
tathaika-puruá¹£aá¹ rÄá¹£á¹raá¹
bilaá¹ cÄdṛṣá¹a-nirgamam
bahu-rÅ«pÄá¹ striyaá¹ cÄpi
pumÄá¹saá¹ pumÅ›calÄ«-patim
nadÄ«m ubhayato vÄhÄá¹
pañca-pañcÄdbhutaá¹ gá¹›ham
kvacid dhaá¹saá¹ citra-kathaá¹
ká¹£aura-pavyaá¹ svayaá¹ bhrami
uvÄca - he said; ca - also; atha - thus; haryaÅ›vÄḥ - O HaryaÅ›vas, sons of PrajÄpati Daká¹£a; katham - why; sraká¹£yatha - you will beget; vai - indeed; prajÄḥ - progeny; adṛṣá¹vÄ - having not seen; antam - the end; bhuvaḥ - of this earth; yÅ«yam - all of you; bÄliÅ›Äḥ - inexperienced; bata - alas; pÄlakÄḥ - although ruling princes; tathÄ - so also; eka - one; puruá¹£am - man; rÄá¹£á¹ram - kingdom; bilam - the hole; ca - also; adṛṣá¹a-nirgamam - from which there is no coming out; bahu-rÅ«pÄm - taking many forms; striyam - the woman; ca - and; api - even; pumÄá¹sam - the man; pumÅ›calÄ«-patim - the husband of a prostitute; nadÄ«m - a river; ubhayataḥ - in both ways; vÄhÄm - which flows; pañca-pañca - of five multiplied by five (twenty-five); adbhutam - a wonder; gá¹›ham - the house; kvacit - somewhere; haá¹sam - a swan; citra-katham - whose story is wonderful; ká¹£aura-pavyam - made of sharp razors and thunderbolts; svayam - itself; bhrami - revolving.
The great sage NÄrada said: My dear HaryaÅ›vas, you have not seen the extremities of the earth. There is a kingdom where only one man lives and where there is a hole from which, having entered, no one emerges. A woman there who is extremely unchaste adorns herself with various attractive dresses, and the man who lives there is her husband. In that kingdom, there is a river flowing in both directions, a wonderful home made of twenty-five materials, a swan that vibrates various sounds, and an automatically revolving object made of sharp razors and thunderbolts. You have not seen all this, and therefore you are inexperienced boys without advanced knowledge. How, then, will you create progeny?
NÄrada Muni saw that the boys known as the HaryaÅ›vas were already purified because of living in that holy place and were practically ready for liberation. Why then should they be encouraged to become entangled in family life, which is so dark that once having entered it one cannot leave it? Through this analogy, NÄrada Muni asked them to consider why they should follow their father’s order to be entangled in family life. Indirectly, he asked them to find within the cores of their hearts the situation of the Supersoul, Lord Viṣṇu, for then they would truly be experienced. In other words, one who is too involved in his material environment and does not look within the core of his heart is increasingly entangled in the illusory energy. NÄrada Muni’s purpose was to get the sons of PrajÄpati Daká¹£a to divert their attention toward spiritual realization instead of involving themselves in the ordinary but complicated affairs of propagation. The same advice was given by PrahlÄda MahÄrÄja to his father (BhÄg. 7.5.5):
tat sÄdhu manye ’sura-varya dehinÄá¹
sadÄ samudvigna-dhiyÄm asad-grahÄt
hitvÄtma-pÄtaá¹ gá¹›ham andha-kÅ«paá¹
vanaá¹ gato yad dharim ÄÅ›rayeta
In the dark well of family life, one is always full of anxiety because of having accepted a temporary body. If one wants to free himself from this anxiety, one should immediately leave family life and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in Vá¹›ndÄvana. NÄrada Muni advised the HaryaÅ›vas not to enter household life. Since they were already advanced in spiritual knowledge, why should they be entangled in that way?
