Canto & Chapters
General History (31 Chapters)
Chapter 120v
The Curse upon the Yadu Dynasty
Chapter 254v
Mahārāja Nimi Meets the Nine Yogendras
Chapter 352v
Liberation from the Illusory Energy
Chapter 423v
Drumila Explains the Incarnations of Godhead to King Nimi
Chapter 549v
Nārada Concludes His Teachings to Vasudeva
Chapter 644v
The Yadu Dynasty Retires to Prabhāsa
Chapter 772v
Lord Kṛṣṇa Instructs Uddhava
Chapter 843v
The Story of Piṅgalā
Chapter 932v
Detachment from All that Is Material
Chapter 1032v
The Nature of Fruitive Activity
Chapter 1134v
The Symptoms of Conditioned and Liberated Living Entities
Chapter 1218v
Beyond Renunciation and Knowledge
Chapter 1341v
The Haṁsa-avatāra Answers the Questions of the Sons of Brahmā
Chapter 1437v
Lord Kṛṣṇa Explains the Yoga System to Śrī Uddhava
Chapter 1533v
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Description of Mystic Yoga Perfections
Chapter 1644v
The Lord’s Opulence
Chapter 1754v
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Description of the Varṇāśrama System
Chapter 1847v
Description of Varṇāśrama-dharma
Chapter 1927v
The Perfection of Spiritual Knowledge
Chapter 2035v
Pure Devotional Service Surpasses Knowledge and Detachment
Chapter 2139v
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Explanation of the Vedic Path
Chapter 2256v
Enumeration of the Elements of Material Creation
Chapter 2359v
The Song of the Avantī Brāhmaṇa
Chapter 2424v
The Philosophy of Sāṅkhya
Chapter 2533v
The Three Modes of Nature and Beyond
Chapter 2634v
The Aila-gītā
Chapter 2748v
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Instructions on the Process of Deity Worship
Chapter 2843v
Jñāna-yoga
Chapter 2945v
Bhakti-yoga
Chapter 3046v
The Disappearance of the Yadu Dynasty
Chapter 3126v
The Disappearance of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Canto 11, Chapter 17
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Description of the Varṇāśrama System
Verse 58 (SB 11.17.58)
SB 11.17.58 • मूल श्लोक
एवं गृहाशयाक्षिप्तहृदयो मूढधीरयम् । अतृप्तस्ताननुध्यायन् मृतोऽन्धं विशते तम: ॥ ५८ ॥
Transliteration
evaṁ gṛhāśayākṣipta- hṛdayo mūḍha-dhīr ayam atṛptas tān anudhyāyan mṛto ’ndhaṁ viśate tamaḥ
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
evam — thus; gṛha — in his domestic situation; āśaya — by intense desire; ākṣipta — overwhelmed; hṛdayaḥ — his heart; mūḍha — unintelligent; dhīḥ — whose point of view; ayam — this person; atṛptaḥ — unsatisfied; tān — them (family members); anudhyāyan — constantly thinking of; mṛtaḥ — he dies; andham — blindness; viśate — enters; tamaḥ — darkness.
Translation
“Thus, because of his foolish mentality, a householder whose heart is overwhelmed by family attachment is never satisfied. Constantly meditating on his relatives, he dies and enters into the darkness of ignorance.”
Bhaktivedanta Purport
By Śrīla PrabhupādaAndhaṁ viśate tamaḥ indicates that in his next life an attached householder will certainly be degraded because of his primitive mentality of bodily attachment, which is called mūḍha-dhī. In other words, after enjoying the sense gratification of considering oneself the center of everything, one enters into a lower species of life. Somehow or other, we must fix our minds on Lord Kṛṣṇa and come out of the darkness of ignorance to our real life in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Eleventh Canto, Seventeenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Description of the Varṇāśrama System.”