Retiring timely!

Verse 1.15.37 (Yugal Kishore Prji):

* Very instructive verse for everyone, irrespective of what ashram one is.
* Besides that, being an ideal king, Maharaja Yudhisthira wanted to retire just to set an example for others. As soon as there is some young fellow to look after the household affairs, one should at once retire from family life to uplift oneself to spiritual realization.
* Working towards spiritual realization should be then the highest priority.
* One thing today seen is everyone is behind eating, eating all the time. But instead of torturing the body with so much food, we should eat only prasadam as much necessary to sustain the body.
* The environment is also not at all congenial, Kaliyuga is already spread everywhere. Practically everyone is going behind eating, mating, sleeping and defending, except of course the devotees.
* The bodily consciousness is very strong right now in human beings.
* It is also said as Kali progresses, citizens have to run away to the forests to protect themselves from the rulers.
* SP is also commenting: Maharaj Yudhistira was retiring timely to set an example. Retired old gentlemen should take lessons from him and leave home for spiritual realization before forcefully dragged away to meet death.
* Because family life without Krishna is just based on: I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
* But a family based on KC, this situation does not arise.
* Krishna instructed to Uddhava, leave before kali comes in.
* If devotees are not sincere, they can do more harm than outsiders.
* The Pandavas are eternal companions of the Lord, and therefore they are more interested in the company of the Lord than anything else. I wish I can achieve that quality.
* To remember this all the time, we should read SB everyday.