By HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“Because of my state of complete foolishness and paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is just like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only a few broken grains of husked rice.”
PURPORT
In this verse the word svārājyam, which means “complete independence,” is very sig