The four distinct groups of disbelievers.

1) The mudhas, or those who toil like beasts of burden, who suffer from chronic unintelligence. They want to enjoy alone the fruit of their acts, and would not exchange it for anything in the world, not even for the Absolute. Their symbol is the donkey, the very personification of stupidity. This poor animal toils day and night, without really knowing for whom. He is satisfied with a bit of grass for his salary, sleeps in fear of being beaten and periodically tries to seduce the donkey, which, each time, does not fail to kick him. Sometimes he sings, or even philosophizes, but the only result of his braying is to inconvenience those around him. Such is the

condition of the fool who ignores the real purpose of his acts, who ignores that action, karma, is for sacrifice, and therefore can only act from ridiculous motives.

Generally, those who work tirelessly to satisfy self-created needs don't want to hear about the immortality of the soul, “they don't have time for it.” These mudhas only live for gain. Yet they do not even fully enjoy the perishable material benefits for which they must exert such exhausting effort. They sometimes work several days and several nights without sleeping, eat badly, suffer from indigestion and stomach ulcers, entirely taken up by their service to false masters. Unaware of their true master, they foolishly serve Mammon. Unfortunately for them, they never surrender to the absolute master, master of all masters, and do not even take the time to inquire about Him from authoritative sources. Like the pig that prefers mud to sweets made of sugar and ghee, the senseless materialist devours sensational news items, flashy magazines and news relating to the fluctuations of material energies, while neglecting entirely the path of spirituality.

2) The naradhamas, or “the most fallen of men” (from nara: man, and adhama: the lowest). Of the 8,400,000 living species, 400,000 are human. Among the latter, several are inferior, practically uncivilized. Is civilized the man who submits to certain principles, of social, political and religious life. Those who advance socially and politically, but neglect spirituality, deserve the name naradhamas. However, there is no true religion without God, since the intrinsic goal of any religion is to know the Absolute Truth and the link which binds us to it. In the Bhagavad-gita (the song of the Lord), Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, clearly establishes that He is this Absolute Truth, and that nothing and no one is superior to Him.The civilized man is therefore the one who gives himself the duty of reviving his lost spiritual consciousness, his knowledge of the relationship which unites him to the Absolute, Sri Krishna, the Supreme and Almighty Person. Anyone who neglects this duty is called a naradhama. We learn from the Scriptures that the child, in the mother's womb, prays to God to release it from its fetal condition, painful in the extreme, and promises Him, in return, to worship only Him. . It is quite natural to pray to God in difficult times, since all beings are eternally bound to Him. But under the influence of maya, of illusory energy, the child, as soon as he is freed from the mother's womb, forgets his sufferings, and at the same time his savior.

The duty of those responsible for the child will henceforth be to awaken his dormant divine consciousness. In the Manu-smrti, the true guide of spiritual life, ten methods of purification are given to us, within the varnasrama-dharma (the four social divisions of human society), to revive the consciousness of God. But today, no one more strictly observes any of these principles, and as a result, the earth’s population, in its almost totality, has become naradhamas. And the material energy, all-powerful, makes the science of such a civilization vain. In the perspective of the Bhagavad-gita, the true scholar is the man who manages to see with an equal eye both the wise brahmana, cow, elephant, dog and dog eater. This vision is that of the pure devotee.

Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Avatar in the figure of the perfect master, freed the Jagai and Madhai brothers, the perfect naradhamas, thus showing that the mercy of the pure devotee extends even to the most fallen. And only in this way, by the grace of a devotee of the Lord, can the naradhama, condemned by the Lord Himself, revive his spiritual consciousness. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, in advocating bhagavata-dharma, devotional action, recommends that we listen with submission to the message of the Supreme Lord. Now, the Bhagavad-gita constitutes the essence of this message, and only if it listens to it submissively can naradhama be liberated; unfortunately, fallen men even refuse to listen to it; how could they then surrender to the Lord’s will?

In a word, naradhamas totally neglect man’s first duty to revive his spiritual consciousness and reconnect him to Krishna.