Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 17


Sanskrit:

ग्राम्यगीतं न श‍ृणुयाद् यतिर्वनचर: क्व‍‍चित् ।शिक्षेत हरिणाद् बद्धान्मृगयोर्गीतमोहितात् ॥ १७ ॥

ITRANS:

grāmya-gītaṁ na śṛṇuyādyatir vana-caraḥ kvacitśikṣeta hariṇād baddhānmṛgayor gīta-mohitāt

Translation:

A saintly person dwelling in the forest in the renounced order of life should never listen to songs or music promoting material enjoyment. Rather, a saintly person should carefully study the example of the deer, who is bewildered by the sweet music of the hunter’s horn and is thus captured and killed.

Purport:

If one becomes attached to the sense gratification of materialistic music and songs, one will develop all the features of material entanglement. One should hear Bhagavad-gītā, or the song sung by the Supreme Lord.