Narada Bhakti Sutras - Text, Transliteration, Translation & Commentary /73

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<ignore>4. RENUNCIATION
 
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<p text="C">seconds if you mix promiscuously with house-holders

and if
you do not take proper precautions. You should

never come out to the plains till you attain Brahma

or Brahma-Sthiti, till you become a full-blown Yogi

or Gyani.
 
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<p text="C">Therefore adhere to the injunctions of the Sastras

till you develop supreme devotion. The observances

will drop by themselves when you are established in

highest devotion.
 
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<p>लोकोऽपि तावदेव किन्तु भोजनादिव्यापारस्त्वाशरीरधारणा
 
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<ignore>Sutra 14. Lokopi taavadeva kintu bhojanaadi-
 

vyaapaarastwaasareeradharanavadhi.
 
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<p text="T">Social customs and practices also may be followed

in like manner, to the same extent only (as

scriptural injunctions). But eating, drinking.

dressing should be continued as long as one

wears this body.
 
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<p text="G">लोकः Lokah social practices, social customs and

usages; अपि : Api: also; तावद् ; taavad: that

much, to that extent; एव : Eva : only; भोजनादिव्यापार :
रः
Bhojanaadivyaapara: activities such as eating (drink-
 

ing, dressing, sleep, exercise); तु :
other hand tu: but; on the
other hand; आ शरीर धारणा वधि :
 
tu a-sarira dharana-
vadhi: as long as one wears this butody.</p>
<p text="C">Worldly duties such as one&apos; on the
a-sarira dharana-
 
vadhi: as long as one wears this body.
 
Worldly duties such as one's occupation in life,

and maintaining the family, etc., should also be care-

fully and scrupulously performed along with religious

duties according to the injunctions of the scriptures.
 
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