SB 2.3.17 Both
by rising and by setting, the sun decreases the duration of life of
everyone, except one who utilizes the time by discussing topics of the
all-good Personality of Godhead.
SB 2.3.18 —
Do the trees not live? Do the bellows of the blacksmith not breathe? All around us, do the beasts not eat and discharge semen?
SB 2.3.19 —
Men
who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never
listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the deliverer
from evils.
SB 2.3.20 —
One
who has not listened to the messages about the prowess and marvelous
acts of the Personality of Godhead and has not sung or chanted loudly
the worthy songs about the Lord is to be considered to possess earholes
like the holes of snakes and a tongue like the tongue of a frog.
SB 2.3.21 —
The
upper portion of the body, though crowned with a silk turban, is only a
heavy burden if not bowed down before the Personality of Godhead who
can award mukti [freedom]. And the hands, though decorated with
glittering bangles, are like those of a dead man if not engaged in the
service of the Personality of Godhead Hari.
SB 2.3.22 —
The
eyes which do not look at the symbolic representations of the
Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu [His forms, name, quality, etc.] are like
those printed on the plumes of the peacock, and the legs which do not
move to the holy places [where the Lord is remembered] are considered to
be like tree trunks.
SB 2.3.23 —
The
person who has not at any time received the dust of the feet of the
Lord’s pure devotee upon his head is certainly a dead body. And the
person who has never experienced the aroma of the tulasī leaves from the
lotus feet of the Lord is also a dead body, although breathing.
SB 2.3.24 —
Certainly
that heart is steel-framed which, in spite of one’s chanting the holy
name of the Lord with concentration, does not change when ecstasy takes
place, tears fill the eyes and the hairs stand on end.
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