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Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan

Bg 16.10

kāmam āśritya duṣpūraṁ
dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ
mohād gṛhītvāsad-grāhān
pravartante ’śuci-vratāḥ

Synonyms: 

kāmam — lust; āśritya — taking shelter of; duṣpūram — insatiable; dambha — of pride; māna — and false prestige; mada–anvitāḥ — absorbed in the conceit; mohāt — by illusion; gṛhītvā — taking; asat — nonpermanent; grāhān — things; pravartante — they flourish; aśuci — to the unclean; vratāḥ — avowed.

Translation: 

Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.

kāmam āśritya, so Kama is there in everyone but here what will happen they are taking Ashreya of Kama, So Kama becomes whole and soul of their life, so instead of taking Ashreya of Krishna they are taking Ashreya of Kama, what is the meaning of this? People have this idea that there are no problem so big that sex can’t solve it. What are the problem just have sex the problem will get solved. Forget it, if it doesn’t get solved postponed it and often after postponing it becomes aggravated further. So sex can never be satisfied and if one wanted to do this more and more it will create further problems. Everyone has lust and there is a civilized way in which it can be engaged and purified i.e. trough marriage, Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha is a progression through Vedic culture.  

Devotees think that there is no problem which Krishna can’t solve. 

This kind of devotion to Kama taking shelter of kama is disastrous. There are so many diseases, so many divorces, so many sexual crime that happens because of uncontrolled lust, and people think that fulfilling lust is the goal of life. So dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ, that they are filled with arrogance and pride and prestige. Subtle Kama is desire for owner. 

mohād gṛhītvāsad-grāhān, mohād because of illusion what happens gṛhītvā, they accept āsad-grāhān, they accept that which is asad temporary, they think this is real this is almost eternal. Movies end with live happily ever after but the fact of life is opposite Dukalayam Aswasatam, so it is white lie but people accept it and they wanted to believe it. mohād gṛhītvāsad-grāhān, they accept it as true. 

Then pravartante ’śuci-vratāḥ, pravartante means they engage you, and how do they engage in ’śuci-vratāḥ. ’śuci-vratāḥ is unclean vows, So Baladeva Vidya Bhusan refers to this can refer to left handed tantra. Left hand Tantra is people engage in sex in all kinds of discriminate way and they think that sex is the means of spiritual advancement. They do black magic and all things like that so, they do inauspicious activity and they do Vratha out of that ’śuci-vratāḥ. That is disastrous. E.g. for genies book of record some couple they kissed each other lips to lips for 47 hours so there is no taste in this, even from the hygine purpose it is not good but all the media splashed it so  ’śuci-vratāḥ, so actually do that which is completely perverse. So this all happens because people don’t have any reference point of how life is to be what is its purpose, Another example a model said that if Indian cricket team wins then I will strip so people don’t have moral balances. Another example PETA is an oraginzation works for protecting animals but to gain advertisement they expose parts of women body and same parts of animals and say that they have parts like me so as you do not eat me, do not eat them. And these women who pose like that in pictures they are considered selfless. 

So it is not selfless it is brainless. So these PETA people says those cricketers are wealthy people why you are stripping for them if you strip, strip for poor animals for the cause of protecting animals so there is no moral reference left for people to decide what is right and what is wrong. ’śuci-vratāḥ. 

So mohād gṛhītvāsad-grāhān.

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