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The descendants of the Surya Vamsa (Sun Dynasty) and Soma Vamsa (Moon Dynasty) are described in Canto Nine. In these dynasties, many great personalities appear such as Ambarish, Ramacandra, Parasurama, the Pandavas and Krishna Himself. Their divine appearance, along with the example and precepts they reveal, are an attempt to lovingly drag the unwilling conditioned souls back to the eternal world of unlimited happiness.
“So we should not be attached to these temporary attractions. We admit these are temporary attractions, but we are still... Just like children. They are attracted to the..., but the parents, they’re guiding, “Oh, you must go to school.” Nihsreyasaya. That is sreyah. The boy, the child, does not like it, but the parents, they are anxious, “Oh, my child is not going to school; he is being spoiled.” So dragging him.
Similarly, the scriptures, the sages, the saintly persons, the devotees, the representative of Krishna, God, they’re very much anxious to take us back to Godhead, back to home. That is nihsreyasaya. That is the ultimate benediction. People are enamoured by the temporary society, friendship and love. And it has become a thankless task for the saintly persons, devotees of God, to drag them: “Oh, please come here. Please chant Hare Krishna. Please be Krishna conscious. Please be God conscious.”
~ Srila Prabhupada, Lecture, 10th November 1968, Los Angeles
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