Srimad-bhagavatam, 3.15.8

10-03-2002, 07:47 PM

yasya vaca prajah sarva
gavas tantyeva yantritah |
haranti balim ayattas
tasmai mukhyaya te namah ||

"All the living entities within the universe are conducted by the
Vedic directions, as a bull is directed by the rope attached to its nose. No
one can violate the rules laid down in the Vedic literatures. To the chief
person, who has contributed the Vedas, we offer our respect!"

PURPORT

"The Vedic literatures are the laws of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. One cannot violate the injunctions given in the Vedic literatures any
more than one can violate the state laws. Any living creature who wants real
benefit in life must act according to the direction of the Vedic
literature. The conditioned souls who have come to this material world for
material sense gratification are regulated by the injunctions of the Vedic
literature. Sense gratification is just like salt. One cannot take too
much or too little, but one must take some salt in order to make ones
foodstuff palatable. Those conditioned souls who have come to this
material world should utilize their senses according to the direction of
the Vedic literature, otherwise they will be put into a more miserable
condition of life. No human being or demigod can enact laws like those of
the Vedic literature because the Vedic regulations are prescribed by the
Supreme Lord."