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Chapter 1. Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra TEXT 43 utsanna-kula-dharmanam
SYNONYMS  utsanna--spoiled;
kula-dharmanam--of
those who have the family traditions; manusyanam--of such men; janardana--O
Krsna; narake--in hell; niyatam--always;
vasah--residence;
bhavati--it so becomes; iti--thus;
anususruma--I have
heard by disciplic succession.
TRANSLATION O Krsna,
maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic succession that those
who destroy family traditions dwell always in hell.
PURPORT Arjuna bases
his argument not on his own personal experience, but on what he has heard
from the authorities. That is the way of receiving real knowledge. One
cannot reach the real point of factual knowledge without being helped by
the right person who is already established in that knowledge. There is
a system in the varnasrama institution by which one has to undergo
the process of ablution before death for his sinful activities. One who
is always engaged in sinful activities must utilize the process of ablution
called the prayascitta. Without doing so, one surely will be transferred
to hellish planets to undergo miserable lives as the result of sinful activities.
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